President Trump appointed William B. Cowen as Acting General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Cowen ...

On February 14, the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a Memorandum announcing the ...

Acting General Counsel William B. Cowen rescinded a series of memoranda issued by his predecessor, Jennifer Abruzzo, ...

This extraordinary act, which was not only contrary to statute but clearly unlawful under a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent.

I wrote a piece for the New York Times in which I argued that the Starbucks unionization campaign illustrates the inherent ...

In a significant development for employers that use restrictive covenant agreements, on4, 2025, National Labor Relations ...

“Since assuming the role of Acting General Counsel, working with experienced field and headquarters ... efforts by Dartmouth ...

Memoranda about severance agreements, noncompete agreements, “stay-or-pay” provisions, the rights of immigrant workers, threats or coercion during union organizing campaigns, and “captive audience” ...

The affected documents touched upon subjects ranging from electronic monitoring of employees to noncompete agreements and ...

The NLRB maintains independence in part because its Board members’ terms are five years. This is intentional, Poydock says, ...

“It is not unusual for the new administration to come in and appoint their own people to the NLRB. It is unusual to fire people. Removing the general counsel, that happens, but here, you’ve got board ...

The dismissals target two independent agencies that oversee swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.