Dallas Employment Trial Lawyer Rob Wiley A no-poaching agreement is an agreement between two or more companies not to hire or solicit each other’s employees. It could be a contract between two companies in the same industry. It could be a contract between a company and a vendor. It’s easy…
Articles Posted in NAtional Labor Relations Act
New Decision Gives NLRB Real Teeth to Make Employees Fired for Protected Concerted Activity Whole
Summary: This article gives a brief overview of the NRLB’s new Thryv, Inc., decision, and its implications for the landscape of labor and employment law. The National Labor Relations Act is an often-overlooked part of employment law. The National Labor Relations Board (the agency in charge of administering the NLRA)…
Tuesdays should be the New Monday
The newest shockwave to hit employment customs is the murmurs of a four-day workweek. In fact, Iceland recently declared their experiment with the four-day workweek a success. Belgian workers won the right to a four-day workweek in February, and the United Kingdom has set up a trial run that began…
A false dawn for unions in 2022?
Summary: This article touches on some of the complex issues surrounding the apparent boom in unionization—will this be a sea change or just temporary? What are the implications of recent union victories in major multinational companies? There have been high-profile union victories in the news lately for the employees of…
Get that Paper (As Long as You Do It for Your Coworkers, Too)
For an employee in Texas there are very few protections because Texas is an at-will employment state. An employer can fire an employee for any reason or no reason, and it is protected under Texas state law. The only thing an employer cannot do is terminate someone or take an…