A Legal Guide for Employers After Virus-Driven Union Layoffs

The breakneck pace of layoffs during the Covid-19 pandemic will test how employers navigate the rules of the road for letting go of union workforces and rehiring them when economic conditions permit.

While the scope of pandemic-induced layoffs is unprecedented—some 22 million people have filed unemployment claims over the last month—the National Labor Relations Board and courts have grappled with labor law issues related to mass dismissals in the past.

Labor lawyers and law professors spoke with Bloomberg Law about about how that body of law informs what companies should know about union obligations related to mass layoffs, hiatus periods, ...