Product Review
The 2015 Case Supplement to Cox & Bok – long the leading casebook in the field – will be available for your Fall Semester. The 2015 Supplement contains an in-depth treatment of major developments under the National Labor Relations Act including the following–
- the new NLRB representation election rules, now subject to judicial challenge
- Purple Communications, adopting new rules on employee use of employer email for concerted activity
- Murphy Oil, reiterating D.F. Horton, holding that the waiver of the capacity to participate in a group arbitration of an employment law claim violates of the Labor Act, with more detailed consideration of the judicial treatment of that question under the Norris-LaGuardia Act as well
- Fedex Home Delivery and more on the distinction between employees and independent contractors
- McDonald’s and more on the joint employer status of franchisors
- Babcock & Wilcox, announcing new arbitration deferral rules, and the explanation in G.C. Mem. 15-02 (Feb. 10, 2015)
- more on employer rules affecting concerted activity – against “gossip†or “threatening behavior†– and especially cases on use of social media
- the Board’s reformulation of “solicitation†in Conagra Foods
The Supplement provides additional treatment of the texture of the law and other developments concerning –
- the campaign to extend “right to work†law to municipal ordinances
- expanded Board remedies treated in three cases – HTH Corp., Hospital of Barstow, and Pressroom Cleaners
- Kroger LP’s gloss on Beck obligations
- Macy’s & Bergdorf Goodman’s treatment of bargaining unit determinations
- Ralph’s Grocery’s treatment of Weingarten in the context of submission to a drug test
- M&G Polymers’ gloss on Litton in how to determine if medical benefits for retirees survive contract expiration
- lockouts, secondary boycotts, and strikes
- and more of the latest on arbitration, pre-emption, and the duty of fair representation
