The Supplement contains the latest and most important developments under the Labor Act including the Noel Canning decision affecting recess appointments to the NLRB. In addition to late-breaking law the Supplement includes: * the NLRB's reinvigoration of rules to expedite representation elections * the NLRB's engagement with the managerial status of professional employees, in particular college and university faculty members * the extension of the Act to scholarship athletes in private universities * the individual waiver of the right to participate in group or class arbitrations--the D.H.
Horton case and the role of the Norris-LaGuardia Act * the UAW election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the claim that inflammatory appeals by third parties interfered with a fair election * the most recent developments on employer social media monitoring * more on company rules governing employee conduct, for example, requiring behavior in a "positive and professional manner" or forbidding the display of an ""inappropriate attitude"" * the NLRB's proposal to change standards for the Board's deferral to arbitration decisions * the Supreme Court's decision not to decide the Mulhall case and what it may mean for neutrality agreements including the challenge to the UAW-VW agreement in Chattanooga * more on judicial faithfulness to the teachings of the Steelworkers' Trilogy