Employment Policies, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), Corporate Counsel

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

Fisher Phillips on 5/20/2025

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

Employee Handbooks Remain Under Board Attack

BakerHostetler on 6/21/2024

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

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

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 4/1/2024

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

It’s Protected: NLRB Finds “Black Lives Matter” Insignia on Employee Uniform Constitutes Protected Activity Under Circumstances

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 2/23/2024

The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), in a 3-1 decision, held that an employee’s display on their work uniform of “BLM,” an acronym for Black Lives Matter, constituted protected concerted activity under Section 7 of...more

NLRB Focuses on When Video Cameras Can Create an ‘Unlawful Impression of Surveillance’

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/25/2023

In a decision relevant for employers utilizing video surveillance equipment in the workplace and those considering the installation of video cameras, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) concluded that an employer...more

NLRB: Employer’s Good-Faith Belief in Employee’s Misconduct Insufficient to Justify Terminating Employee Engaged in Protected...

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 12/15/2020

As we have often discussed, there is a fine line between protected and unprotected activity. Profane outbursts, deliberate misconduct, or highly-disruptive strikes may fall outside the protection of the NLRA, subjecting...more

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

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 2/24/2020

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

Employer’s Discipline of Employees Engaging In “Intermittent Strikes” Lawful: NLRB Majority

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 7/31/2019

This summer has been punctuated by walkouts. We have seen walkouts in support of a $15 minimum wage and walkouts to protest the sale of goods to the government. Walking off the job is, of course, a staple of labor action, and...more

Recent ALJ Decision Provides Important Nuance Regarding Workplace No Recording Rules

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 7/18/2019

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

Employee’s Complaint About Low Tippers Not Protected Concerted Activity, NLRB Majority Rules

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 2/4/2019

The right of employees to band together for purposes of bringing grievances to their employer is at the very core of the National Labor Relations Act, as embodied in Section 7. This right is called protected concerted...more

Labor Board Makes It Harder For Employees To Claim Their Complaints Are Protected

Fisher Phillips on 1/18/2019

In a 3-1 ruling that should be hailed by employers across the country, the National Labor Relations Board just made it harder for employees to successfully claim that their workplace gripes constitute protected concerted...more

Is This The Beginning Of The End Of The NLRB’s War On Employer Rules? - ALJ Rules Broad Confidentiality and Texting Rules Lawful

Fisher Phillips on 10/23/2017

Employers who have been keeping up with the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) decisions over the past eight years may be pleasantly shocked to learn that an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) just upheld an employer’s...more

Employment Policies › Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) › Corporate Counsel

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

Employee Handbooks Remain Under Board Attack

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

It’s Protected: NLRB Finds “Black Lives Matter” Insignia on Employee Uniform Constitutes Protected Activity Under Circumstances

NLRB Focuses on When Video Cameras Can Create an ‘Unlawful Impression of Surveillance’

NLRB: Employer’s Good-Faith Belief in Employee’s Misconduct Insufficient to Justify Terminating Employee Engaged in Protected...

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

Employer’s Discipline of Employees Engaging In “Intermittent Strikes” Lawful: NLRB Majority

Recent ALJ Decision Provides Important Nuance Regarding Workplace No Recording Rules

Employee’s Complaint About Low Tippers Not Protected Concerted Activity, NLRB Majority Rules

Labor Board Makes It Harder For Employees To Claim Their Complaints Are Protected

Is This The Beginning Of The End Of The NLRB’s War On Employer Rules? - ALJ Rules Broad Confidentiality and Texting Rules Lawful

Divided NLRB Rules Employer Policy Protecting Customer Information Is Lawful

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

NLRB Tells Employers to Mind their Own Business

Another Day, Another Violation: Board Targets Hospital’s Work Rules Prohibiting Offensive Conduct

"Balancing Protection of Information With Employee Rights in Confidentiality Policies"

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