Category Archives: Court Decisions & Legislation

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TEXAS COURT ISSUES NATIONWIDE INJUNCTION, BARRING THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR’S PERSUADER RULE

By: Thomas W. Mackenzie Yesterday (November 16, 2016), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction barring enforcement of the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Persuader Advice Exemption Rule.”  As we have reported in previous E-Alerts, this rule would have required employers and their attorneys to report expenditures incurred in […]

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NLRB Expands Appropriate Bargaining Unit to Include Temporary Workers

In a 3-1 decision issued this week, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) reversed current precedent that prohibited the inclusion of temporary employees along with permanent, or “solely employed,” employees in a bargaining unit absent employer consent, as it returned to the previous standard under M.B. Sturgis, Inc., 331 NLRB 1298 (2000), where no such […]

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WISCONSIN RIGHT TO WORK LAW REINSTATED

District 3 of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals issued a decision yesterday, May 24, reinstating Wisconsin’s right to work law pending appeal of a Dane County Circuit Court Judge’s decision finding the law to be unconstitutional.  The Court of Appeals held that the Circuit Court erred in not granting a stay pending the appeal of […]

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STATUS OF RIGHT TO WORK LAW

By: Thomas W. Mackenzie We issued an E-Alert on April 13 addressing Right to Work. Since then, a number of clients have asked for further clarity on the status of Wisconsin’s Right to Work law following the issuance of the Dane County decision. On April 8, 2016, a Dane County Circuit Court judge found unconstitutional […]

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SAVE THE DATE FOR OUR ANNUAL COMPLIANCE/BEST PRACTICES SEMINAR!

Please mark your calendar for Lindner & Marsack, S.C.’s Annual Compliance/Best Practices Seminar! WHEN:         April 14, 2016 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. WHERE:       Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel 375 South Moorland Road Brookfield, WI This FREE half-day event will address current topics in labor, employment, benefits & worker’s compensation law and provide employers across industries with […]

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Restrictive Covenant Reform Proposed for Wisconsin

On March 5, 2015, Senate Bill 69 (bill) was introduced by Senator Paul Farrow (R-Pewaukee). If passed by the Wisconsin legislature and signed by the Governor, the bill would eliminate the current version of Wisconsin’s restrictive covenant law, Wis. Stat. § 103.465. The statute applies to agreements with employee such as non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disclosure […]

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