What this service is:

Bloomberg BNA’s Labor & Employment Law Resource Center™ integrates up-to-date news, thought leadership and analysis from respected practitioners via forty-eight Bloomberg BNA Treatises and BNA Insights articles and videos, analysis from our experienced editorial team, case law, and other primary sources—conveniently organized by practice area. Now, everything you need is in one place.

What it helps you do:

• NEW! State Law Chart Builder: Quickly generate customized comparison charts to view variances and similarities between state employment laws in areas including benefits, leave, compensation, and work rules. Export results into spreadsheet format and review summaries organized by your selected topic area and state(s) to understand nuances and develop sound workplace policies.
• BNA Labor PLUS™: Access five unique and proprietary labor databases, searchable by organization, union and local number, industry, city and state, date, and number of employees to zero in on the specific labor relations data you need. Find out about organizing efforts, get details of recently negotiated settlements, locate parties to collective bargaining agreements, and research work stoppages by industry.
  NEW! Compare Tool: Compare old and new versions of labor and employment-related U.S. Code provisions, facilitating research in cases where statutory amendments affect interpretations of the law. 
• NEW! Access in-depth analysis with thirty-nine labor and employment law treatises now available on the Resource Center- with links to primary source material and headnoted cases - including titles such as Elkouri & Elkouri: How Arbitration Works, Covenants Not to Compete: A State-by-State Survey, The Fair Labor Standards Act, and How to Take a Case Before the NLRB.
• NEW! Pinpoint full-text state labor and employment statutes with an interactive map-based functionality and see how each state is different on key labor and employment topics. More than 2,400 statutory sections have been added.
• NEW! View annotations on the U.S. Code provisions, and access relevant manuals for more detailed analysis. Annotations to federal statutory material are seamlessly integrated with expert editorial commentary and primary sources.
• NEW! Sort through the database of verdicts and settlements in key employment discrimination cases with a redesigned Verdicts and Settlements Navigator.
• Get fast answers to your questions using the Resource Center’s topic pages. Now, all of your Bloomberg BNA content is organized by topic, so you can find what you need instantly.
• View thousands of arbitration cases and decisions quickly, access the cases that matter to your work, and read the full-text decisions
• For the first time, you can search your Bloomberg BNA news, analysis, treatises and case law at the same time. Our dynamic web platform integrates the content and tools that you need to work more efficiently throughout the business day.
• Our BNA Insights series of articles and videos from expert practitioners helps you understand the implications of key legal developments, legislative activity, and trends.
• Find out about crucial breaking news with Bloomberg BNA’s  Daily Labor Report ®—the nation’s leading source for up-to-the-minute news and expert analysis of labor and employment law.
• Find a case by citation, keyword, or by using our Headnote Finder. Instantly search Bloomberg BNA’s extensive archive of case law.
• Access your notifications so you can be the first to know about important cases in fair employment, individual employment rights, disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration.
• Speed and refine your research with instant links to treatises, federal and state laws and regulations, agency documents, practice tools, indexes, and more.
• Track your competitors in the news, and find out about law firm changes, in our People on the Move section.

Product Structure

Reference: analysis, guidance and primary source material

Decisions: full-text judicial, administrative, and arbitrator opinions and rulings

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

The Resource Center is updated continually. Daily Labor Report e-mail updates are sent out daily, plus latest development e-mails as important news breaks. Other e-mail alerts also are available.

• Absenteeism and turnover
• Affirmative action/diversity
• Age bias and compulsory retirement
• Americans with disabilities
• Collective bargaining
• Contract negotiation and enforcement
• Discrimination
• Drug and alcohol testing
• Employment-at-will
• Employment testing
• Fair employment practices
• Family and medical leave
• Fetal protection
• Handling grievances
• Hiring
• Hours of work
• Independent contractors
• Individual employment rights
• Jurisdiction and procedure
• Labor arbitration
• Labor-management relations
• Layoffs and shutdowns
• Leave rights
• Minimum wage
• Overtime pay
• Pay equity
• Political activities
• Privacy
• Right to information
• Safety and health
• Sexual harassment
• Smoking in the workplace
• Strikes and slowdowns
• Temporary and leased workers
• Termination
• Union organizing
• Wages and hours
• Work rules and discipline