I’ll tell you why, after the jump… The National Labor Relations Board stresses that employees must be able to discuss their jobs freely. The National Labor Relations Board, which helps administer the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, believes that social-media policies are overly broad if they unfairly restrict…
Back on August 26, in this post, I gave the heads up that the National Labor Relations Board would require most private-sector employers to post this notice (a super-sized version of the one on the right), in a conspicuous location, informing employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act,…
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board announced in this press release that it had issued a second social-media report to help provide further guidance to practitioners and human resource professionals. What does that report say? And how can you bulletproof your social-media policy? Find out after the jump… * *…
No inflatable rats here, folks. Just some organizing shenanigans. Last week, the National Labor Relations Board was tasked with determining whether a union may use the photograph of an employee, without his authorization, on union-organizing materials. Click through to find out how the NLRB decided this one… * * *…
Well, color me surprised (I think that’s purple). Today, President Obama exercised his executive power to “recess” appoint — actually, to be technical about it, no one is on recess — three new members to the National Labor Relations Board, thus bringing the Board up to its full capacity of five members. The recess…
And just in time for Christmas. The National Labor Relations Board announced today that it has again extended the deadline for covered employers to post this notice, advising employees how to form a union, among other things. The new deadline is April 30, 2012. The NLRB decided to further delay the…
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board gave a glimpse into how it plans to change the way your workplace may become unionized. Details follow after the jump… * * * As the Board explains here, the new rules that it intends to implement will limit the number of issues that…
Back in September, I joked that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was on the verge of disbanding. (Ok, maybe it wasn’t “ha! ha!” funny. Just work with me here, will ya?) How does this blog post relate to gridlock in Paris and a red circle? Hella-existential, I’d say… Now,…
Do you have a unionized workforce? If you have a social-media policy, it should not expressly restrict employees’ rights to discuss terms and conditions of employment. Otherwise, you may be violating the National Labor Relations Act. And to those non-union employers who have social-media policies, don’t think for a second…
The National Labor Relations Board announced yesterday afternoon that it has pushed back its deadline for covered employers to post this notice, advising employees how to form a union, among other things. More details, including the new deadline, after the jump… * * * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIjZE4kcg_Q The NLRB announced in this press release that the new posting deadline is…