Bloomberg BNA Releases Sixth Edition of “The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act”

Bloomberg BNA has published the Sixth Edition of The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act, offering analysis of the latest decisions that will affect labor law practitioners.

For more than 40 years, practitioners have relied on The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act to keep them current on U.S. labor law. This two-volume treatise, written by distinguished members of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law representing management, labor, and neutrals, is the essential research tool for labor and employment law practitioners. For the specialist, this classic reference is a quick means of accessing leading cases; for the generalist, it provides an excellent summary of the law and its development.

The new Sixth Edition includes updated discussion of important topics, including:

• Employer-mandated confidentiality agreements
• Employee handbook restrictions on solicitations
• Definition of a supervisor
• Definition of an independent contractor
• The disagreement between the Board and the Ninth Circuit concerning the right of an employer to unilaterally discontinue union dues checkoff after a contract expires
• Obligation of an employer to provide financial information requested by the union during bargaining
• Legitimacy of union use of inflated rat balloons and banners to publicize labor disputes
• Rights of employees to object to payment of full union dues under a union-shop agreement
• Obligation of an employee who is unlawfully discharged under the NLRA to seek interim employment
• Definition of a "salt"

New cases discussed in the Sixth Edition concern such topics as:

• Employer restrictions on the use of company email to discuss union activity
• New standards for determining the unit in which an election should be held when unions are seeking smaller units than employers
• Whether voluntary recognition bars the filing of an election petition
• Whether union bannering amounts to picketing in violation of the secondary boycott and recognitional picketing provisions of the NLRA
• The requirement by unions that employees notify them annually of their objections to paying union dues in excess of the cost of representing the unit
• The standards for determining whether an employer's refusal to hire a "salt" is unlawful
• Qualification of an "at will" employee as a permanent strike replacement
• Assessment of supervisory status
• Board jurisdiction over operators of charter schools

The editor-in-chief of The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act, Sixth Edition is John E. Higgins, Jr., an adjunct faculty member at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, who is retired from the NLRB.