Did a bunch of bloggers sue you last week for wage and hour violations?
Has the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) threatened to file a complaint against you for Twitter shenanigans?
Well, that was Thomson Reuters’ week. And, as you can imagine, it sucked.
I share their grief, after the jump…
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Nothing really. But I needed to combine three topics into one quick blog post.
On Genetics
I will be presenting a webinar tomorrow (2/16) at 1:30 PM EST on how the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act will affect your company. If you had to click on the hyperlink, then you probably should sign up for the webinar. You can learn more about the webinar here.
A company accused of violating federal law for firing an employee for comments she made on Facebook about her supervisor has settled.
How does this settlement affect how your company can control employee engagement in social networking activities? The answer, after the jump.
The National Labor Relations Board is concerned that your employees don’t know how to form a union. And the Board wants YOU to tell them how to do it. Don’t believe me? Read all about it after the jump.
Even without theNational Labor Relations Board may decide cases in a way that enhances the union’s ability to organize a workforce. The the Board may also place additional limits on employer speech rights and attempt to give union organizers access to an employer’s workplace.
But even without direct, on-site access to employees, unions have smartly taken advantage of social media and, as a result, have many new effective organizing tactics, as demonstrated in this YouTube video (after the jump)…
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I’ll admit it. Posts about union protests are boring. It’s true.
So I pick and choose my moments. Like the time I wrote about a union and its 10-foot inflatable rat. That was interesting quirky somewhat eventful.
Hmmm….
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