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Labor Disputes Protected Concerted Activity

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Labor Board: Employee Protected Concerted Activity Determined by Totality of the Circumstances

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The National Labor Relations Board has returned to the “totality of the circumstances” test for determining when individual employee action constitutes protected concerted activity. Miller Plastic Products, Inc., 372 NLRB No....more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Surprise Surprise, the NLRB Continues Expanding Employee Protections

Imagine this: a nurse leaves the operating room during spinal surgery to participate in a union action, the employer terminates the nurse, and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) holds that the employer violated federal...more

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Unfettered Free Speech or Profane Outbursts? NLRB Invites Input to Determine Scope of Section 7 Protection

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The National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) is inviting input “to aid the Board in reconsidering the standards for determining whether profane outbursts and offensive statements of a racial or sexual nature, made in the...more

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Watch Your Mouth: The NLRB Invites Input on when Profane, Racial, or Sexual Language Crosses the Line

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On September 5, 2019, over the dissent of one member, a majority of the National Labor Relations Board invited briefing to aid the Board in reconsidering the standards for determining whether “profane outbursts and offensive...more

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The Union Strikes Back: Work Stoppages Of The Future

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In 2018, strikes appeared to be everywhere: from fast food restaurants to Google, statehouses to schoolhouses. After decades of declining strike activity, workers took to the streets on a magnitude not seen in recent memory....more

Cozen O'Connor

I-24 – Thankful for Volume 1, 2017, and Relationships

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“It’s the Relationships, Stupid.” This final episode of 2017 looks back at the topics and guests from volume 1 of the podcast, and somehow ties former President Bill Clinton to today’s operative premise in employer/employee...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Hold the Mayo: Jimmy John's Workers' Disparaging Statements Not Protected by the NLRA Says 8th Circuit

How far can employees go during a labor dispute to make their case to the public? For years the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has granted employees a surprising amount of leeway, so long as their statements were not...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Bring in the TV Cameras: NLRB and D.C. Circuit Find Employees Airing Grievance in Media is Protected Activity

An employee goes on television and maligns his bosses for a new company policy with half-truths—and his bosses fire him for disloyalty. Sounds justified, right? Wrong. A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision...more

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Facebook “Like” Protected Speech Under the NLRA

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We all have them. Friends and family who overshare on Facebook. Their food choices (complete with pictures), exercise routine, and relationship drama, all solidified in the form of a status update. Annoying maybe, but mostly...more

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