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[Webinar] 2024 Labor & Employment Law Virtual Update - September 18th, 8:30 am - 11:00 am ET

Foster Swift Collins & Smith on 8/7/2024

It has been a particularly busy year on the labor and employment law front. To learn more about the major challenges employers face and developments your organization needs to address before year's end, we encourage you to...more

Viral Layoffs: Important Considerations for Employment Actions in the Digital Age

BakerHostetler on 7/17/2024

Social media usage remains ubiquitous in 2024, and a recent trend sees the increased use of social media by employees to document their experiences with layoffs and disciplinary actions in the workplace. ...more

Privacy Vs. Productivity: Risks That Come To Employers

Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti,... on 6/1/2023

On both a federal and state level, there has been a concerted push to protect employee privacy more thoroughly. As the law continues to develop or, as in the case of the NLRB, new methods of enforcement come into play,...more

NLRB Focuses on When Video Cameras Can Create an ‘Unlawful Impression of Surveillance’

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/25/2023

In a decision relevant for employers utilizing video surveillance equipment in the workplace and those considering the installation of video cameras, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) concluded that an employer...more

NLRB General Counsel Takes Aim at Electronic Employee Monitoring and Management

Tonkon Torp LLP on 11/18/2022

The NLRB’s lead attorney recently issued a memorandum about employee monitoring and algorithmic management. In it, the General Counsel vows to “vigorously” enforce existing law to protect worker’s Section 7 rights in the face...more

Employers May Still Rely On Boeing, But For How Long?

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 5/19/2021

On May 3, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) found that the employer’s policy barring workers from recording conversations with their colleagues did not violate the National Labor Relations Act...more

NLRB Explains Past Practice Analysis And ULP Defense Under Raytheon Decision

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/23/2020

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has explained the “past practice” analysis it applies in determining whether a unionized employer’s unilateral actions constitute an unlawful change under the NLRB’s decision in...more

Live-Streaming Coaches: A Lesson on Workplace Recordings

FordHarrison on 11/14/2019

What on earth are these players thinking? We now have our third noteworthy example from the last few years of a player live-streaming his coach’s postgame victory speech on a social media platform....more

Recent ALJ Decision Provides Important Nuance Regarding Workplace No Recording Rules

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 7/18/2019

In late 2017, the NLRB in Boeing Company, 365 NLRB No. 154 (2017), established a new three category system for classifying various employer policies. The new system was designed to balance a “work rule’s negative impact on...more

Wired For Sound: The Ins And Outs Of Workplace Recordings

Fisher Phillips on 2/6/2019

Consider the all-too-real scenario of meeting with your employee for a disciplinary discussion. At the start of the meeting, he innocently puts his phone face down on the table. Unbeknownst to you, however, anticipating the...more

[Podcast]: Can My Employees Do That?

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 1/10/2019

In this episode of The Proskauer Brief, partners Harris Mufson and Howard Robbins conduct the first part in a series of podcasts entitled, “Can My Employees Do That?” In this installment, Harris and Howard discuss workplace...more

II-34- Ten Things You Missed From Summer 2018

Cozen O'Connor on 9/11/2018

We're back! This brand new episode addresses the 10 developments you may have missed from this past summer of 2018, including employees secretly recording the workplace, new non-compete legislation, the unstoppable #MeToo...more

How Can Employers Prevent Workplace Recording?

McGuireWoods LLP on 8/30/2018

The recent revelation that Omarosa Manigault Newman secretly recorded her conversations with President Donald Trump and Chief of Staff John Kelly in purportedly the most secure workplace in the country once again highlights...more

NLRB GC: Employer Can Refuse Union’s Request To Record Meetings And Interviews

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 7/10/2018

The National Labor Relations Board General Counsel’s Division of Advice has concluded that an employer could refuse to allow a union’s representatives to record monthly team meetings and investigatory interviews. GE...more

Top Five Labor Law Developments For May 2018

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/14/2018

1.The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that class action waivers in employment arbitration agreements do not violate federal law. Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, No. 16-285; Ernst & Young LLP et al. v. Morris et al., No. 16-300;...more

Workplace Civility Legal Again

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 1/8/2018

Rules mandating workplace civility and protection of confidential business information — recently the target of the National Labor Relations Board — are lawful again....more

The Way We Were: The NLRB’s Time Machine Resets the Clock on Employer Work Rules and Joint Employer Status

Dickinson Wright on 12/19/2017

With the end of 2017 right around the corner, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) issued a duo of pro-employer decisions that continue to chip away at and erase its jurisprudence during the Obama...more

NLRB Adopts New Test for Evaluating Workplace Policies

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/19/2017

On the eve of former Chairman Philip Miscimarra's departure from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Board Thursday created a new test for determining the lawfulness of workplace policies, overturning the test...more

A Holiday Gift for Employers: NLRB Hands Down New Book for Employee Handbooks

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 12/19/2017

In a 3-2 decision in The Boeing Company, 365 NLRB No. 154 (Dec. 14, 2017), the National Labor Relations Board (Board) backed away from 13 years of employee-friendly precedent concerning rules, policies and handbooks by...more

Another Federal Appeals Court Rejects Workplace Recording Bans

Fisher Phillips on 8/21/2017

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals recently became the second federal appeals court this year to hold that an employer’s rule prohibiting recording in the workplace violates the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). In a July 25...more

Another Facially Neutral Employment Policy Bites the Dust

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/22/2017

About a year ago, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) struck down another neutral employer workplace rule – this one against making unauthorized recordings in the workplace. The NLRB’s decision just was...more

Top Five Labor Law Developments In May 2017

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/22/2017

1. Handbook rules requiring employees to obtain preapproval to use cameras and other recording devices at work are not per se unlawful, according to the National Labor Relations Board. Mercedes-Benz U.S. Int’l Inc., 365 NLRB...more

Second Circuit Upholds NLRB Whole Foods Decision Allowing Employee Recording in the Workplace

Franczek P.C. on 6/21/2017

With little fanfare, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision striking down Whole Foods’ policies prohibiting workplace audio or video recording without prior approval from...more

Second Circuit Upholds NLRB Ban on No Recording Policy

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 6/19/2017

Last year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) surprised many employers when it declared illegal Whole Foods’ policy that prohibits employees from video or audio recording in the workplace. The Board concluded that the...more

Second Circuit Upholds NLRB Ruling That Employer’s “No Recording” Policy Violated National Labor Relations Act

McCarter & English, LLP on 6/14/2017

Employers need to be mindful about policies prohibiting employees from recording or videotaping in the workplace, as such rules, if not drafted carefully, may run afoul of the National Labor Relations Act (the Act). This...more

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