Labor Days

News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s labor and employment practice

NLRB Extends Effective Date of New Joint-Employer Rule Amidst Legal Challenges

In the wake of challenges to the NLRB’s new joint-employer rule, the NLRB extended the effective date of the new rule from December 26, 2023, to February 26, 2024. As we previously reported, the rule expands the scope…

Indirect Control Of Another Companies’ Employee Makes You A Joint Employer

October 26, 2023, the NLRB issued new rule effective December 26, 2023, expanding the scope of the joint employer standard to encompass relationships where a company holds indirect and unexercised control over the…

NLRB Reiterates Its Commitment to Creating Employee-Friendly Policies

An ideologically recalibrated (and motivated) National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has yet again modified several Trump-era rules regarding representation case procedures and expanded the scope of protected concerted…

Not So Fast: New York State’s Potential Non-Compete Ban Stalls Out (For Now)

If your business deals with any kind of sensitive proprietary information or sensitive client or customer relationships (read, many of you), you probably use various forms of restrictive covenants—noncompetition,…

Employment Laws Shaping 2023

2023 is in full swing. While everyone is abuzz about ChatGPT taking over the world, a newly divided Congress is finding its sea legs and state capitols are eyeing new regulations. Agencies and courts have taken up…