Featured on the new episode of Employment Law This Week:Â Employers must have specific waivers to make unilateral policy changes when bargaining with a union.
That's according to the NLRB, which once again clarified its "clear and unmistakable" waiver standard to restrict employers’ midterm changes. In this case, an employer relied on a broad management rights clause in its contract with the union to make unilateral changes to specific policies. The NLRB found that the union had not waived its right to bargain over those changes because the contract did not refer to the policies with sufficient clarity.
See the episode below and read Mark Trapp's blog post on this topic.