December 6, 2012
NLRB Judge Broadens Ruling Prohibiting Class Action Waivers
An NLRB Administrative Law Judge has issued a decision that significantly broadens the Board’s earlier decision that an arbitration agreement prohibiting class actions violates Section 7 of the Act. Were this decision to…
Read More ›In the midst of a union decertification campaign, a union supporter made anonymous, vulgar statements about the employer. On a union newsletter, he wrote “Dear Pussies, Please Read.” On another…
Read More ›October 12, 2012
NLRB Strikes Down Policies Prohibiting Defamatory Statements By Employees And Disclosure of Confidential Information
Under Board precedent, if an employer’s policy proscribing employee conduct is ambiguous, the Board will find it lawful unless one of three conditions apply: (1) the policy was adopted in…
Read More ›October 12, 2012
NLRB Decides Its First Social Media Case
Recently, the NLRB has received well-deserved publicity for its decision to prosecute employers for supposedly overbroad social media policies, but until recently, the NLRB itself had offered no opinion on the…
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