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NLRB General Counsel Shines Guideline Light On Employer Work Rules
In an effort to “help employers to review their handbooks and other rules, and conform them if necessary, to ensure that they are lawful,” the National Labor Relations Board's (the Board) general counsel recently issued a 30-page memorandum setting forth guidance on employers' internal personnel policies to ensure compliance with the National Labor Relations Act (the Act). The report is relevant to nearly all private employers, regardless of whether they have union-represented employees.
Although the Board's general counsel said in a letter accompanying the guidance memorandum that he believes “most employers do not draft their employee handbooks with the object of prohibiting or restricting conduct protected by the [Act],” the guidance memorandum is troubling because it finds that many seemingly innocuous, sensible employer handbook provisions and policies are unlawful because they could potentially be interpreted to restrict employees' rights to engage in activities protected under the Act.
While the guidance memorandum has no independent legal authority, it does signal to all employers (union and non-union) those areas that the general counsel's office will investigate in pursuing unfair labor practice charges. As we have seen over the last couple of years, the Board has become much more aggressive in pursuing charges against non-union companies for policy violations, and this guidance memorandum helps clarify the general counsel's position.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?