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...
View ArticleNew California Laws Govern Employer Access To Personal Social Media Accounts...
The social media revolution continues to be born out of California. On January 1, 2013, two laws regulating social media go into effect altering the legal landscape concerning employees’ use of...
View ArticleNLRB ISSUES ANOTHER SOCIAL MEDIA DECISION FAVORING EMPLOYEES
For those who thought that the NLRB was done with its intrusion into rational decisions made in non-union workplaces (see recent post here), think again. A recent decision from the Board found...
View ArticleThe New York Times Weighs In On NLRB Social Media Rulings
The New York Times just published an article on recent NLRB decisions involving social media. We have previously discussed those decisions here and here. - Dan Handman (Los Angeles)
View ArticleNLRB Lacks Quorum To Act
Take a look at our recent e-Alert on the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which found that President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were...
View ArticleSEC ISSUES REPORT ON PUBLIC COMPANIES USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued report that provides guidance to public companies that want to use social media to disclose important information about their business...
View ArticleBeware of Using Stale Policies and Seemingly Derogatory Employee Facebook...
As we have blogged before (see our Social Media tab for more posts), the NLRB continues its storm of decisions on social media cases. The NLRB recently awarded reinstatement and back pay to several...
View ArticleNLRB Issues More Social Media Decisions
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, the NLRB issued two new decisions in social media cases, one ordering the reinstatement of a tour bus driver who complained about his employer...
View ArticleNLRB Turns Its Focus To Employer E-Mail Policies
According to the National Labor Relations Board, employers are free to have policies limiting e-mail usage for business purposes only. They are just not free to enforce it. At a Weyerhauser plant in...
View ArticleSenate Confirms 5 Members Of NLRB, Leaving It With A Quorum
For the first time since January 2012, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unquestionably has a quorum to issue rulings. This comes on the heels of the U.S. Senate’s votes yesterday to confirm a...
View ArticleSocial Media Policies: It’s All About Respect
Would you believe that 1.1 billion people use Facebook and one-third of Americans use social media for at least an hour a work. Considering how prevalent social media is, you are behind the curve if...
View ArticleAccessing Employees’ Private Facebook Posts Can Get Employers Into Hot Water
A U.S. District Court Judge in New Jersey has just found that private Facebook postings by an employee about her employer are subject to the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. §§2701-11 (SCA). The...
View ArticleFederal Court Enforces NLRB’s Decision To Strike Down Overbroad...
Eighteen months ago, we reported on a slate of decisions from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) which struck down social media, confidentiality and other similar policies from non-union...
View ArticleCan An Employer Force Out An Employee For Unpopular Political Views: The...
Brendan Eich resigned his post as CEO of Mozilla, a California-based company, in early April after just 14 days on the job. The reason for his sudden departure and short tenure? It became public that...
View Article50 For 50: Five Decades Of The Most Important Employment Discrimination...
Number 50: What Happens When a Boss “Likes” An Employee a Little Too Much? As we conclude this 50 For 50 series, we look to the future of employment law. As we see it, the biggest change in the...
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