Current Employment

You can’t get away from it. The thing is everywhere. Everyone is talking about the Employee Free Choice Act, and while you smile and nod and raise your eyebrows a little, you have no idea what they’re talking about.

We’re here to help. Here’s CE’s official explanation of EFCA – or “card check”, or whatever you want to call it – and why you should care.

The Wall Street Journal has a story today about the boom in workplace legal advice spawned by the fear over EFCA.

But if the bill keeps losing support, will the secondary work keep up? And can we separate client needs from our own drive for the upsell?

Two more senators’ stances have weakened EFCA’s chances of passing as-is. Signs are starting to point to compromize, but what that means is still a mystery.

I received an email from Michael Ricciardelli at Seton Hall that the law school is hosting a debate over the Employee Free Choice Act this Thursday, March 18.
The participants include two attorneys from the famously pro-management law firm Jackson Lewis, a solo practitioner repping unions, and the Organizing Director for the largest health care workers’ [...]

After months (years, really) of prep and wrangling, The Employee Free Choice Act was finally introduced in both Houses of Congress by Rep. Miller and Sen. Harkin.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wasted no time mobilizing hundreds of lobbyists to offices on the Hill.

Put your helmets on. This is going to get rough.