Laura L. Rubenstein is a partner at Wright, Constable & Skeen in the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. Her practice concentrates in advising clients in many different areas of workplace law. She represents businesses and nonprofit organizations in a wide range of matters, including providing guidance on sensitive and confidential employment issues and defending […]
Less than a month after being sworn in as the new General Counsel of the NLRB, Jennifer Abruzzo defined a bold new direction for the Board’s enforcement priorities in a memo issued on August 12, 2021. The memo, Mandatory Submissions to Advice GC Memorandum 21-04 (August 12, 2021), lays out subject matters that NLRB Regions must submit to […]
The recent, rapid spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) Delta variant has caused many employers to reconsider adopting mandatory vaccine policies. In deciding whether to adopt such a policy, employers must wade through a host of legal and employee relations issues. For union employers, there is one more issue to add to the list: […]
Thomas M. Lucas is the Managing Principal of the Norfolk, Virginia, Office of Jackson Lewis P.C., a full-service labor and employment law defense firm; practicing the full gamut of management employment law on behalf of the Firm’s corporate clients. To represents management exclusively in the full range of employment and labor law matters, including employment discrimination […]
Erica Probst joined KSR in 2002 and became a principal of the firm about eight years later. Prior to joining the firm, Erica worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Thomas F. Bryant for the Third District Court of Appeals. Almost immediately upon starting her law career in 1999, Erica realized that real winning […]
On August 13, 2021, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published its updated COVID-19 guidance to account for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) July 27, 2021, guideline change. The CDC change recommends that fully-vaccinated people mask in all “public indoor settings” in areas of high and substantial COVID-19 transmission. But that change […]
