Subject: Labor Relations INK Links September 2020

Labor Relations INK Links
September 2020
Here is your monthly summary of relevant news items since the last issue of INK, delivered on the 2nd Thursday of each month. The full edition of Labor Relations INK will arrive on the 4th Thursday of the month.
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Union Bailout Update

FLSA Compliance Update: Employers Must Exercise Reasonable Diligence In Tracking Hours Worked By Remote Workers (US)
https://lri.link/2Zphqfb

DOL Reiterates That Hours Need Not Fluctuate Above and Below 40 in Fluctuating Workweek Method of Pay
https://lri.link/3hgCL0c

NLRB was too hard on company that broke the law ahead of union election - 6th Circuit
https://lri.link/33efFT3

NLRB GC says common forms of employer aid to unions are unlawful
https://lri.link/3iiaGah

Judge Blocks Labor Department’s Narrowed Joint Employer Test (2)
https://lri.link/3mb0Kll

EEOC Limits Power to Bring ‘Pattern or Practice’ Bias Claims (1)
https://lri.link/3k7saq6

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Covid-19

Novel Lawsuits for a Novel Virus – 8/24
https://lri.link/3mcCY8C

At-Risk Youths Lose Connection to New Lives as Job Corps Idles
https://lri.link/35tR4fT

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Laboring Toward 2020

Time For Unions to Give the Democratic Party an Ultimatum
https://lri.link/33d3XYY

Unionization in Unusual Places: Political Campaigns 
https://lri.link/3iiTfWW

Trump, Biden spar over economy, workers in Labor Day blitz
https://lri.link/2RgtWJ6

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Conservatives Should Ensure Workers a Seat at the Table *Statement on a conservative future for the American labor movement.
https://lri.link/2DPudjm

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Union membership resumes its decline, report says
https://lri.link/35s7CVl

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Tech/Media Unions

The Failure to Unionize the Tech Industry Will Eat the Labor Movement Alive
https://lri.link/3hiO7ke

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It’s All Academic

Acting NLRB Regional Director Says Resident Advisors Are Eligible to Unionize
https://lri.link/35nuBRj

Andover teachers held illegal strike, state labor board rules
https://lri.link/2ZrNfUt

Graduate students to strike in protest of fall reopening
https://lri.link/3399Vd2

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Gig Economy

California's Job-Killing A.B. 5 Scaled Back, but Only for Some Professions
https://lri.link/2ZnGW4r

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Healthcare

Workers picket at 11 Tenet hospitals in California
https://lri.link/3k8Mnfv

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Minimum Rising

Chamber of Commerce Backs Democrats Pushing $15 Minimum Wage
https://lri.link/35nohtb

Working Washington: An SEIU Subsidiary
https://lri.link/3iipAgz

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Right-to-Work

Unions sue state panel over rule change requiring Michigan workers to approve dues annually
https://lri.link/2RfiEVL
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