Protected Activity, Unions, Federal Labor Laws

Fourth Circuit Says Blaming Union for Delay in Pay Increases Violates NLRA

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 6/13/2025

Unionization campaigns often become heated, resulting in claims and criticism by both management and organized labor that walk a fine line between protected speech and illegal intimidation....more

National Employment Perspective: Focus on the NLRB and Employee Communication

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 1/9/2020

Recent Changes to NLRB Guidance Regarding Employers’ Policies Involving Employee Communication - Two recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have significantly overturned earlier rulings regarding...more

National Labor Relations Board Expands Employers’ Rights to Enforce Workplace Rules

Pierce Atwood LLP on 1/8/2020

In a pair of significant year-end rulings, the National Labor Relations Board overturned two Obama-era precedents that had restricted the ability of both unionized and non-unionized employers to limit the use of company email...more

Board Overturns Purple Communications, Restores Employer Right to Restrict Email Use

Littler on 12/19/2019

On December 17, 2019, in a 3-1 decision split along party lines, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) restored to employers the right to restrict employees from using company email systems for nonbusiness purposes. The...more

NLRB Reverses Purple Communications – Holds Employer May Restrict Employees’ Use of Email and Other Information Technology Systems

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/18/2019

On December 17, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) ruled that an employer’s rule prohibiting use of its email system for nonbusiness purposes did not violate employees’ rights under the National Labor...more

Protected Activity › Unions › Federal Labor Laws

Fourth Circuit Says Blaming Union for Delay in Pay Increases Violates NLRA

National Employment Perspective: Focus on the NLRB and Employee Communication

National Labor Relations Board Expands Employers’ Rights to Enforce Workplace Rules

Board Overturns Purple Communications, Restores Employer Right to Restrict Email Use

NLRB Reverses Purple Communications – Holds Employer May Restrict Employees’ Use of Email and Other Information Technology Systems

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