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I’ll tell you why, after the jump…
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Up with NLRB employee-rights posters, or suffer ze consequences
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, which includes the right to form a union.
And then some employer groups went to court because they don’t like NLRB posters. In response, the NLRB slowed its roll not once, but twice, delaying the postponing the posting deadline until April 30, 2012.
Now a federal court has weighed in on the posting requirement. What did it say? And will your business have to post something by April 30, 2012. Find out after the jump…
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3 ways for HR to avoid unlawful, overbroad social-media policies
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…
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Say cheese! Thank you for supporting organized labor.
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…
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Re-open for business: Obama recess-appoints three to the NLRB
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 appointees are Sharon Block (Dem.), Richard Griffin (Dem.), and Terence Flynn (Rep.). You can read more about them here in a White House release. And here is a release from the NLRB.
NLRB: Employers can keep that union-rights poster on ice
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.
Here’s a sneak peek into how union-election rules will soon change
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…
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Occupy National Labor Relations Board?!? #OccupyNLRB
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…
This is what a social-media policy in a unionized workplace looks like
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 that you have carte blanche to control what employees say and do online. The National Labor Relations Act covers you as well.
So how can you draft a social-media policy that won’t run afoul of the National Labor Relations Act? Find out after the jump…
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NLRB puts the temporary kibosh on its mandatory union-rights poster
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…
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