Category: NLRB

New Posting Requirements by NLRB

You can’t follow labor and employment law updates lately without discovering something new the National Labor Relations Board is up to. Well now the NLRB is requiring all private-sector employers to notify employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act by adding a new posting requirement.  Starting November 14, 2011, all employers will […]

New Posting Requirements by NLRB

You can’t follow labor and employment law updates lately without discovering something new the National Labor Relations Board is up to. Well now the NLRB is requiring all private-sector employers to notify employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act by adding a new posting requirement.  Starting November 14, 2011, all employers will […]

“Concerted Activity” Definition Expanded

Last week, in Parexel International, 356 NLRB No. 82 (2011) the National Labor Relations Board expanded its definition of “concerted activity” by holding that an employee who complained to a supervisor about wages and working conditions (and was subsequently terminated) was engaging in protected behavior. The NLRB reversed an Administrative Law Judge’s ruling that her […]

Two Supreme Court Labor and Employment Law Decisions

– City of Ontario, California v. Quon. This case involved  a police officer’s text messages being reviewed by the City.  The  Court sidestepped the question whether public employees have an expectation of privacy, but in any event unanimously found that the city’s search of a worker’s text messages at issue in the case was reasonable […]