Each month, CUPA-HR General Counsel Ira Shepard provides an overview of several labor and employment law cases and regulatory actions with implications for the higher ed workplace. Here’s the latest from Ira. More Than 35,000 University of California Service Employees Vote to Strike The union representing over 35,000 service and patient care employees at all... View Article
During calendar year 2023, union organizing continued to rise at institutions of higher education. Data from the National Labor Relations Board on union organizing show that 31.2% of all private-sector workers who successfully unionized in 2023 were employed by institutions of higher education. Public institutions also saw considerable union activity, though this is not reflected... View Article
The Department of Labor (DOL) has accelerated release of proposed and final regulations as the agency strives to meet the self-imposed deadlines in the Biden administration’s Spring 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Regulatory Agenda). Multiple DOL sub-agencies are issuing rules and proposed rules in July and August on independent contractor classification, overtime... View Article