March 09 2021
Dozens of union members demonstrate March 8 outside congressman s office in Clackamas County.
Dozens of union members demonstrated March 8 outside U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader s office in Oregon City, insisting he vote in favor of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act and the American Rescue Plan.
When the House first voted on the American Rescue Plan on Feb. 26 President Joe Biden s $1.9 trillion stimulus package intended to provide aid during the ongoing pandemic and recession Schrader was one of only two Democratic congress members who voted against it.
Organizers of the demonstration said they feel this shows Schrader isn t listening to his constituents and isn t fighting for working class Oregonians.
President Joe Biden has nominated Jennifer Abruzzo, a lawyer for the Communication Workers of America union, to be general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”).
Thursday, January 21, 2021
At noon, eastern standard time, on January 20, 2021, Joseph R. Biden Jr. became the 46th president of the United States, giving Democrats control of the executive branch, and, albeit by the thinnest of margins (with Vice President Kamala D. Harris presiding as president of the U.S. Senate), the legislative branch of the U.S. government for the first time since 2011. While that transition will, no doubt, impact a great many national and global issues, the focus of this article is the potential impact that this dynamic will have on U.S. labor law and policy.
Those who have been monitoring labor issues since 2008 largely know what to expect. After four years of more management-friendly labor policy, today the pendulum has started to swing in the direction of labor, just as it did in 2008. How far the pendulum swings and how fast is yet to be determined, but all signs indicate the swing could be significant. On the eve of the election, President Bid
Toronto-based trash giant Waste Connections has acquired Springs Waste Systems, the last remaining locally owned company among the four largest trash haulers in the Colorado Springs area.
Waste Connections bought Springs Waste Systems and trash companies in Bailey, southwest of Denver, and in Omaha, Neb., last month from the Shrader family. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deals make Waste Connections the largest waste disposal company in the Colorado Springs area, employing 167 people to serve 75,000 residential customers on 90 routes from offices near Marksheffel Road and Constitution Avenue and near Circle Drive and Interstate 25. The company also operates a transfer station near Security and a landfill in Fountain.
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The concept of “joint employment” is an important workplace legal issue and often arises in the real estate industry because industry employers want to avoid liability for another business’s employees’ legal claims. The risk of one entity being deemed to jointly employ another entity’s workforce is real, and proactive steps can help identify and mitigate such risk.
Background
Whether one business can be held jointly liable for workplace law claims of another business’s employees requires a fact-intensive analysis. The legal standard for such assessment varies, depending upon which statutory framework is considered. During the Trump Administration, the standard for evaluating joint employer status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) changed. Further changes during the Biden Administration can be expected.