The National Labor Relations Board rules that mandatory captive audience meetings—where employers force workers to attend anti-union presentations under threat of termination—violate the National Labor Relations Act as illegal employer coercion. The Biden-era NLRB finds that compelling workers to …
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The Supreme Court rules 5-4 in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis that employers can require workers to sign mandatory arbitration agreements waiving their right to join class action lawsuits over wage theft, discrimination, or other labor law violations. Justice Neil Gorsuch—a Federalist Society member …
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The Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisers publishes landmark research ‘Labor Market Monopsony: Trends, Consequences, and Policy Responses’ documenting how employer market power (monopsony) and product market concentration (monopoly) systematically suppress American …
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