by Stephen Koppekin | Apr 18, 2017 | Business, Labor, News, Stephen Koppekin, Tips for Employers, Unions, Workplace Policies
Within the past month, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has initiated a shift in its philosophy on what constitutes a joint employer relationship. Until now, the NLRB’s standard for joint-employer status was for an entity to exert actual direct control over...
by Stephen Koppekin | Apr 4, 2017 | Labor, Stephen Koppekin
America’s first step toward creating the Department of Labor as we know it today took place in 1884 with the passage of Bureau of Labor Act. That law created the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to gather data on labor and employment in the country; BLS still exists...
by Stephen Koppekin | Feb 5, 2017 | Labor, Stephen Koppekin, Unions
Stephen Koppekin Consulting provides cost-effective and efficient consulting solutions in the areas of labor and employment. With his expert ability to negotiate and his solution-based mindset, Stephen Koppekin shares his vast knowledge on his consulting website. No...
by Stephen Koppekin | Feb 3, 2017 | Labor, Stephen Koppekin, Workplace Policies
In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, Americans worked twelve-hour days for seven days a week to make a decent living. The working conditions weren’t safe, as everyone worked in unsafe conditions, weren’t given proper breaks, and the areas weren’t very sanitary....
by Stephen Koppekin | Apr 12, 2016 | Stephen Koppekin
Wages are the single topic most associated with collective bargaining. However, the process has transformed the American workplace over the last one hundred years in a wide variety of ways. Collective bargaining, most simply, allows employees and employers to...
