• OMA Connections Partner Frantz Ward advises employers to carefully consider any hiring agreements — formal or informal — they might enter with competitors following recent antitrust actions by the Biden administration.
• The NLRB has taken the first step towards scrapping Trump-era rules that made it easier for workers to undo union representation, according to this insight from OMA Connections Partner Fisher Phillips.
• Fisher Phillips has also published four tips for updating social media policies as more employees are posting videos from the workplace.
• Activists seeking to raise Ohio’s minimum wage to $15 will start collecting signatures after they cleared the second hurdle to place the issue on the ballot.
• IndustryWeek has spotlighted a Pennsylvania manufacturer that has tapped new talent by hiring refugees.

Meanwhile, HR executives in the U.S. are concerned a recession is looming and a majority have already implemented at least one strategy to reduce or adjust the size of their workforce, according to PwC’s latest survey. 11/10/2022