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Labor/Employment

Jun. 24, 2020

Labor board nixes bargaining over past disputes

Tuesday’s ruling reinstates the law as it had been for 80 years, the board said.

Employers need no longer give new unions a chance to bargain over certain disciplinary policies before the two parties finalize their first collective bargaining agreement, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday.

The ruling effectively overturns an Obama-era decision that required most employers to give unions the chance to negotiate "discretionary elements of an existing disciplinary policy before imposing 'serious disc...

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