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 Matthew Bultman Law360, New York (August 1, 2016, 5:33 PM ET) — The U.S. Postal Service engaged in an unfair labor practice when it issued a written warning to a worker and union steward who berated a supervisor during a 2012 meeting over employee grievances, the National Labor Relations Board said Friday. Partially overturning…
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…
[maxgallery id=”38863″]By Brian Fung – July 10, 2015 AT&T didn’t break the law when it forbade its technicians and other public-facing employees from wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the words “Inmate” and “Prisoner of AT$T,” a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The ruling overturns a decision by the National Labor Relations Board and permits AT&T to…
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…
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…
I commend Vern Davidson and the postal employees in Cape Girardeau, Missouri for speaking out on the delay of their customersâ First-Class Mail. Some of it was caused by the collection time of mail being moved up from 5 pm to 1:30 pm to allow shipping it to St. Louis. Randy Zelznick also deserves kudos…
Web News Article #: 152-14 08/14/2014 – Postal management may not prohibit or otherwise interfere with the display of the APWUâs Wanted poster on union bulletin boards, APWU attorneys report. The poster features a picture of Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe and accuses him of âcrimes against the public Postal Service.â Displaying the poster is…
