The National Labor Relations Board ("the Board") had quite an eventful year in 2015. Just think, the Board has recently broken decades-old precedent in five different ways:
1) On December 11, 2014, the Board decided Purple Communications, Incorporated, overruling Sturgis, thereby opening up employer email systems to employees to discuss workplace issues during nonworking time.
2) On March 18, 2015, the Board's General Counsel released its "Report of the General Counsel Concerning Employer Rules," which identifies specific employer policies it wishes to target that "chill" employee rights.
3) On April 14, 2015, the Board announced its wide-sweeping Election Rule changes, which dramatically speeds up the election process and facilitates expansive simultaneous changes to the post-petition process...
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