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Employers Still Need to Follow NLRB’s Strict Handbook Rules – For Now What You Need to Know About Current Standard and When it...

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With a new presidential administration now in place, many employers are hopeful that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will return to more employer-friendly policies – especially those related to handbook policies....more

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Employee Handbooks Remain Under Board Attack

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During the Obama administration, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) stringently reviewed employee handbooks of nonunionized employers to determine whether particular policies infringed on employees’ rights...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Appellate Court Rejects NLRB’s Findings in Employer Surveillance Case as “Nonsense”

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Declaring the NLRB’s rationale to be “nonsense,” on March 26, 2024, a unanimous three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Stern Produce Company Inc v. NLRB, refused to enforce...more

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NLRB Dissent In Employee Handbook Decision Provides A Roadmap for Future Cases, Unfortunately

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Seyfarth Synopsis: When a new President is about to shift the balance of power at the National Labor Relations Board, a Board dissent can foreshadow how the newly constituted Board will consider a similar issue. Such is the...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Applying the Boeing Standard, NLRB Upholds Employer’s Policies Restricting Cell Phone Use, Non-Work Email Use and Disclosure of...

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Applying the facially neutral work rule test laid out in Boeing, the Board recently reversed an Administrative Law Judge decision, concluding that the employer maintained lawful workplace rules restricting employee use of (i)...more

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Recent ALJ Decision Provides Important Nuance Regarding Workplace No Recording Rules

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In late 2017, the NLRB in Boeing Company, 365 NLRB No. 154 (2017), established a new three category system for classifying various employer policies. The new system was designed to balance a “work rule’s negative impact on...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

NLRB Evaluates Personnel Handbook for Section 7 Compliance and Finds Moonlighting Policy Unlawful

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Nicholson Terminal & Dock Company ALJ Decision (07-CA-187907) An Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently evaluated Nicholson Terminal & Dock Company's (Nicholson) Personnel...more

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Divided NLRB Rules Employer Policy Protecting Customer Information Is Lawful

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Employers can prohibit the use by employees of the names, social security numbers and credit card numbers of customers in furtherance of organizational activities. If this seems like it should have been a foregone conclusion,...more

Baker Donelson

The NLRB is Still in Business – Watch Your Handbooks

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While employers wait to see if the Trump Administration will produce a kinder, gentler National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the NLRB is still in the business of punishing employers for workplace policies that ostensibly...more

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National Labor Relations Board Issues Yet Another Decision Finding An Employer’s Work Rules Overly Broad

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The National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) recently issued a decision that serves as a reminder for both union and non-union employers that the Board continues to take an aggressive stance on seemingly innocuous employment...more

Littler

NLRB Issues Numerous Decisions Against Employers as Hirozawa's Term Expires

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In the midst of a heated presidential election cycle, employers are following recent decisions of the National Labor Relations Board closely. Before losing its three-member Democratic majority at the expiration of Board...more

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NLRB Ruling in Social Media Case Provides Useful Guidance for Employers

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Drafting a social media policy in compliance with Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “the Act”) has become increasingly challenging for employers, as the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “the...more

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Federal ALJ Says Ban on Conducting Personal Business in Handbook Violated NLRA Rights

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The National Labor Relations Board continues its assault against standard employment policies considered to interfere with employee rights. This time, a federal administrative law judge accepted the Board counsel’s argument...more

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NLRB Tells Employers to Mind their Own Business

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Seyfarth Synopsis: An Administrative Law Judge held that an employer’s policy of prohibiting employees from conducting personal business at work, along with its social media and solicitation/distribution policies, violated...more

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Employee Manuals – Sticking to the Script: New Guidance from the NLRB

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On April 7, 2016, a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) ruled that five Dan Gilbert companies, including Quicken Loans Inc., Fathead LLC, In-House Realty LLC, One Reverse Mortgage LLC,...more

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