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EEOC, NLRB & Me: Mark your calendars for November 12, you guys

What if… I’m just saying, what if you could attend an event — a free event, with breakfast — and you get to hear me speak for an hour and fifteen about social media in the workplace and other hot workplace issues, and then grill me during a Q&A? That would…

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Some Senate Republicans seek to reinvent the National Labor Relations Board

So, yesterday, it was all about some House Republicans introducing legislation to constrain the enforcement efforts of the EEOC. Then, I read this story from Ramsey Cox at TheHill.com. It seems some Senate Republicans are taking aim at the National Labor Relations Board. More after the jump… * * *…

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How to curse out your boss on Facebook … and get away with it!

It’s easier than you think. Indeed, a recent decision from the National Labor Relations Board bears this out. Details after the jump… * * * Online chatter about work is still chatter about work. As we’ve discussed here before, the National Labor Relations Act, gives covered employees (that would include…

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NLRB may encourage your employees to file OSHA, FLSA claims too

Last week, the National Labor Relations Board issued this memorandum in which it has instructed regional offices to encourage employees to file complaints with the United States Department of Labor if the the regional NLRB office “believes that an employer may have violated a substantive or anti-retaliation provision of [OSHA]…

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Supreme Court: President Obama botched those NLRB recess appointments

In a unanimous opinion delivered yesterday (here) in NLRB v. Noel Canning, the Supreme Court concluded that President Obama’s so-called “recess appointments” of three of the five members of the National Labor Relations Board between the Senate’s January 3 and January 6 pro forma sessions were unconstitutional. Amy Howe from…

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Apparently, you can curse your boss out and still keep your job

What with me gabbing on about firefighters afraid of fighting fires, butt grabs, and some Delaware lawyer starving himself over social media, I missed this National Labor Relations Board decision, in which the Board basically held that, as long as you don’t go too far and pull a Latrell Sprewell,…

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ALJ strikes social media policy disclaimer for work-related speech

How many of you have social media policies, which contain a provision that reads something like this… “If you identify yourself as an associate of the Company and publish any work-related information online, you must use this disclaimer: ‘The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent…

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Employment Law Blog Carnival – Pick Your Holiday Edition

The third week of April ushers in several holidays: Passover, Good Friday, Easter. But no matter what your religion or god — even a sacrilicious ceiling waffle — we can all agree that the Employment Law Blog Carnival, which you can find this month at Tim Eavenson’s blog: Current Employment,…

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Wages aren’t confidential, you guys. Your employees can discuss them.

Over the past several years, seemingly, we’re seen the NLRB take a more active interest in employee handbooks. We’ve certainly seen it with respect to social media policies; especially, where these policies purport to limit the rights of employees to discuss their employment with one another. This is because Section…