Labor Law, Cases and Materials: 2014 Statutory Appendix and Case Supplement (University Casebook Series) - Softcover

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