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The Department of Labor’s Office of Labor Management Standards (“OLMS”) has released its long-anticipated revisions to its interpretation of the rules for the reporting of employer engagements with third parties to provide services designed to influence employees’ choices of collective bargaining representation. This is known as “persuader activity.” Employers who enter an agreement with an…

The Department of Labor has been taking aggressive steps to prevent employers from exercising their rights to provide information to their employees during union campaigns.  Under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, employers must disclose the amounts they spend on consultants either attempting to influence their employees about the choice of unionization or providing information…