By Anna Tallarico – September 27, 2023 On Sept. 20, The Leader received a tip that within the last few months several employees had quit the U.S. Post Office in Port Townsend due to management issues. The Leader approached a carrier to âask a quick question.â The carrier shook their head and said they were…
July 21, 2020 Washington D.C. â In a decision issued today in General Motors LLC, 14-CA-197985 369 NLRB No. 127 (2020), the National Labor Relations Board modified the standard for determining whether employees have been lawfully disciplined or discharged after making abusive or offensive statementsâincluding profane, racist, and sexually unacceptable remarksâin the course of activity…
January 9, 2019 Washington, D.CâThe Judges Division of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued an updated Bench Book, which replaces an earlier version issued in January 2018. The new January 2019 edition contains citations to numerous additional Board and court decisions and other authorities. It also contains several new sections, including sections addressing…
By Robert McTiernan – March 2, 2016 On December 24, 2015, employees who want to make video and audio recordings of co-workers and company meetings received a holiday gift. In Whole Foods Inc. and United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 919, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that a blanket company policy prohibiting use…
Why it matters A worker who violated her employerâs no cellphone use and disloyalty policies by taking selfies with coworkers that were posted online with a comment that she was âworking like an [sic] slaveâ was terminated in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), an administrative law judge recently determined. The Tinley Park…
Office of Public Affairs – July 2, 2015 202-273-1991 publicinfo@nlrb.gov www.nlrb.gov In the eighty years since the National Labor Relations Act was enacted, the workplace has changed in ways that President Roosevelt never could have imagined when he declared that the goal of the law was âcommon justice and economic advanceâ for all. Yet his…
As recent high-profile cyber attacks have demonstrated, employers have a duty to protect their employeesâ electronically stored personal information from being accessed by hackers, and to promptly remedy any breach in security concerning such information. Depending upon the outcome of a recently filed charge before the National Labor Relations Board (âNLRBâ or the âBoardâ), unionized…
In light of the Ebola virus outbreak abroad and the recent Ebola cases in the U.S., employers should be aware of the laws implicated in their treatment of employees. Though employment issues related to Ebola may appear to be novel, employers faced very similar issues in the 1980s involving AIDS, and more recently in 2009…
