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Trade Secrets/Non-Compete Year in Review - 2023

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Welcome to our 2023 Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Year in Review. 2023 was a busy year in this space, but not as busy as many expected. Although multiple states introduced restrictive covenant legislation, the most...more

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Trade Secrets/Non-Compete Quarterly Update - Q2 2023

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Welcome to our Q2 Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Update. As you can tell from the update, Q2 was a busy quarter in this space from both a regulatory, legislative, civil litigation and criminal litigation perspective....more

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UPDATE: Fifth Circuit Affirms NLRB Ruling In Tesla Case, Ordering Elon Musk to Delete Union-Related Tweet

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On March 31, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) decision issued in 2021 (previously discussed here), which held that Tesla Inc. violated the...more

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Top Five Labor Law Developments for May 2022

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1. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel’s office issued a memorandum reiterating the rights of immigrant workers under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Continuing its aggressive approach to...more

Cozen O'Connor

#No Filter: Regulating an Employer’s Social Media Posts

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In this special edition of #No Filter, we will examine a recent May 20, 2022 decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals impacting the limits of permissible speech on social media. This time, however, we examine attempts...more

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Court gets the joke: Twitter "threat" didn't violate NLRA

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I still think an emoji would have helped. A couple of years ago, I posted about a decision from an administrative law judge who found that Ben Domenech, co-founder and Executive Officer of FDRLST Media, LLC, and publisher...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 11.30.2021 | Top Story: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Resigns

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down, effectively immediately, from the site he co-founded in 2006. He was replaced by company CTO Parag Agrawal, “who has recently been working on technologies associated with...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Tesla and Musk Get a Shock from the NLRB – Tesla CEO Ordered to Delete Union Tweet and Eliminate Overly Broad Confidentiality...

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In its March 25 decision, the NLRB unanimously held that: (1) Tesla violated the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) after prohibiting employees from talking to the media; (2) Tesla did not violate the Act by calling...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.26.2021 | Top Story: New Unemployment Claims Fall by 100k as Job Market Builds Back

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Thursday delivered some welcome good news in the slow push for a labor market recovery. The Labor Department reported that new jobless benefits claims “fell to their lowest weekly level in the last year, a sign that the...more

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NLRB: Employer Tweet Unlawfully Restrained Protected Activity

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On November 24, 2020, the Board held that a high-level executive’s tweet violated Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA by interfering with or restraining employees’ protected, concerted activity....more

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When Twitter Fingers Cross a Line: An Employer’s Guide to Navigating Offensive Off-Duty Employee Conduct

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You don’t need a legal blog to tell you that the country is in a state of extreme unrest regarding the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and so many other Black people, at the hands of police and in...more

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Beltway Buzz - September, 2018

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September to Remember. Congress returned this week, and Capitol Hill policymakers are girding themselves for a busy month of September. Indeed, October 1—the start of the new fiscal year—looms large, so Congress will have...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

“Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”: How to get yourself fired for a Facebook post

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Social media has created a minefield of concerns for both employees and employers. The news is full of stories of employees documenting their questionable off-duty conduct on social media, or posting comments containing...more

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Episode 20: What Makes Employment Cases Go Viral...

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Matt welcomes Law360 Senior Employment Reporter, Vin Guerreri, to discuss legal journalism in today's "Twitter culture." Topics include the importance of thought diversity and balanced content, the types of employment cases...more

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Don’t Feed The Trolls: What Employers Can Do To Combat Internet Trolls

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...The internet has forever changed the way information is shared. The rapid-fire online patter produces comments and information that could be both helpful and harmful to an employer and its employees. On the one hand, such...more

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NLRB Continues to "Like" Enforcement over Social Media Policies and Related Issues

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In recent years, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has focused attention on company policies that attempt to limit employee engagement in social media. Specifically, the NLRB has consistently taken the position that...more

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Labor Day Wouldn’t Be Labor Day Without New NLRB Decisions

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The onset of Labor Day and the end of the NLRB fiscal year (September 30) one can count on seeing a number of decisions issued.  This year is no different, and perhaps more are being issued during these last few days because...more

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NLRB Ruling in Social Media Case Provides Useful Guidance for Employers

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Drafting a social media policy in compliance with Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “the Act”) has become increasingly challenging for employers, as the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “the...more

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Social Links: Google penalizes sites with pop-up ads; proposed Federal legislation to criminalize revenge porn; ad industry group...

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Google is cracking down on mobile pop-up ads by knocking down the search-result position of websites that use them. The National Labor Relations Board decided a social media policy that Chipotle had in place for its...more

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#Fired: Post a Tweet, Lose Your Job

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Many people enjoy spouting off what they view as 140-character tidbits of wisdom on the social media platform Twitter. But recently several individuals have found themselves in trouble with their employers (read: former...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Quirky Question #279: Concerted Activity in 140 Characters or Less

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Question: I am a manager in a medium-sized retailer that has locations and employees in 16 states. The company maintains a social media policy, which was recently updated. ...more

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NLRB Continues to Target Employers’ Social Media Policies

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In recent years, the National Labor Relations Board has placed increasing scrutiny on employers’ social media policies. The NLRB has specifically focused on whether such policies unlawfully interfere with employees’ right...more

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#Concerted Activity in 140 Characters or Less

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Employees have increasingly voiced concerns on social media regarding their employment, often including specific statements about their employers. As previously discussed on this blog, an employee’s Facebook post related to...more

Allen Matkins

Is Tweeting A Protected Concerted Activity?

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According to the NLRB’s recent ruling in Chipotle Servs. LLC, 2016 BL 76781, tweeting can be a protected activity. In that decision, the presiding ALJ determined that Chipotle violated the NLRA when it directed an employee to...more

Baker Donelson

NLRB, Social Media and the Right to Complain

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The National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that Chipotle Mexican Grill violated the law when it forced an employee to delete certain posts on his Twitter account. James Kennedy had tweeted some unflattering statements...more

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