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…
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,…
Sorry, gang. Last night was my fantasy baseball auction. And I got home hella-late. So, no post today. Ahhhhhh, I can’t totally leave you hangin’. So, you can read about how the University of Northwestern football team can now organize and form a union (here), or you can grade my…
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…
Yesterday, I read with interest Jon Hyman’s post at the Ohio Employer’s Law Blog about how Target has employed a 14-minute training video to help keep its workplace union free. Gawker has posted a copy of the video here. Like a bear crapping in the woods, Gawker pokes fun of…
Back in 2011, the National Labor Relations Board tried to pass certain rules that would have changed the union-election process in eight ways: Allow for electronic filing of election petitions and other documents. Ensure that employees, employers and unions receive and exchange timely information they need to understand and participate…
As my buddy Rubo used to say: “It’s like school on Saturday; no class.” Read all about it — yesterday’s BIG federal appellate court decision; not my buddy — after the jump… * * * Through December 20, you can vote for this hella-awesome blog in ABA Journal’s Blawg 100…
Before I get into the this new bill, let’s clear up a popular misconception: David Hasselhoff lives in my basement rent-free right-to-work means that an employee can be fired at any time for any non-discriminatory reason. No, dudes. That’s called at-will employment. Right-to-work laws give individual employees in a unionized workplace…
Ladies and gentlemen, the National Labor Relations Board is back in business. (Well, somebody tell that to the Board, where it’s been business as usual lately. More on that in a moment.) Yesterday, the Senate voted mainly along party lines to confirm five members — a full slate — to…
So much labor-and-employment-law news this week, I’ll do what I can to cram it into a single post. Here goes… From Seth Borden at Labor Relations Today comes this news about the Senate agreeing to — gasp — seat a full five-member National Labor Relations Board. How could this happen?…