As we approach the Labor Day weekend, many in Minnesota are planning on spending time with family and friends away from the office, taking advantage of the extra day off. But as you venture off to the lake for one …
Here we sit at the end of August, and as of now, there have been a total of seven interest arbitration awards posted to the Bureau of Mediation Services website. While this is equal to the total number of interest …
We imagine that when the folks at Starbucks asked their assistant managers to set the security alarm and lock up their stores at the end of the night, they were not thinking the employees would also be carrying a stopwatch, …
The Wiley Law Office will be taking a brief hiatus from updates as it heads north for the annual MPELRA Summer Conference. Look for both Greg and Ben during the conference, as Ben will be presenting Thursday afternoon on Total …
As football season approaches, we address a controversial issue in a somewhat different context. Prior to joining the Department of Energy as an Attorney Advisor, Jody TallBear was an activist in the Native American community and made it known she …
In our previous posts regarding the NLRB’s decision in The Boeing Company, we discussed the old standard for analyzing work rules set under Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia, how the NLRB found that standard unwieldy and difficult to apply in many situations, …
The Paid Parental Leave movement has swept the nation in recent years, with the number of employers offering paid maternity leave rising almost ten percent in the last two years. The problem with that, as the EEOC sees it, is …
Last week, we discussed the NLRB’s old approach to analyzing work rules, and how the Board was often getting stuck on work rules that would possibly be interpreted by employees as restrictions on Section 7 rights under the NLRA. For …
As part of this three-part series, the Wiley Law Office will discuss a major change that took place recently at the National Labor Relations Board in how it evaluates employer work rules and whether they “chill” employee speech in regard …
In another case that seems ripe for appeal to District Court, an arbitrator reversed the City of Duluth’s decision to terminate an officer following the arbitrator’s finding that the officer used of excessive force and failed to report that use …
