Labor and Employment Law
Ca. Labor & Emp't Rev. May 2014, Volume 28, No. 3
Content
- Labor & Employment Law Section Executive Committee 2013-2014
- California Employment Law Notes
- Cases Pending Before the California Supreme Court
- From the Editors Editorial Policy
- Inside the Law Review
- Laws Governing the Use of English-Only Policies in the Multilingual Workplace
- Masthead
- MCLE Self-Study: Origins and Development of California's Prevailing Wage Requirements and Enforcement Mechanisms*
- Message From the Chair
- Public Sector Case Notes
- Wage and Hour Update
- Nlra Update
NLRA Update
By Richa Amar & Jonathan Cohen
Richa Amar is General Counsel of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, a labor union representing more than 23,000 health care professionals throughout Southern California. Jonathan Cohen, a partner at Rothner, Segall & Greenstone, represents unions and employees in all aspects of labor law, including in arbitration, litigation, and administrative proceedings before the Public Employment Relations Board and National Labor Relations Board.
Take Two: Board Again Proposes 2011 Amendments to Representation Election Rules
In February 2014, the Board, by a 3-2 vote, proposed amendments to the representation election process, to modernize processes and eliminate inefficiencies and unnecessary delay. The proposed changes are identical to those the Board proposed in June 2011. After some of the proposed changes were incorporated into a final rule, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia invalidated the final rule on the ground that the Board’s vote on the rule lacked a proper quorum.