By Brian Mahoney – May 22, 2015
The Postal Service will settle a union complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, alleging it refused to bargain over how to compensate 800,000 employees affected by a data breach that stole their personal information. The agreement will require the USPS to negotiate over how it should respond to the breach, which exposed data that identity thieves prize, including employee’s Social Security numbers and birthdays. Unions complained that officials kept them in the dark about facts of the breach and acted unilaterally in offering victims a year’s free credit monitoring. The complaint was a novel one — the NLRB, has rarely, if ever, considered whether employers have a duty to bargain with labor groups over data breaches, POLITICO Pro Labor & Employment’s Brian Mahoney has the story: http://politico.pro/1ejj4op