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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

Covert Employees: Recording Conversations at Work

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 9/18/2018

Can an employee secretly record conversations with a co-worker, supervisor, human resources manager or executive and use that recording in a claim or lawsuit against his/her employer? ...more

NLRB Holds That a Ban on Videotaping Workplace Conversations is Unlawful

Foley Hoag LLP on 1/12/2016

Recently, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held that an employer violated Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by maintaining a policy that prohibited employees from making certain audio or video...more

The NLRB Finds Whole Foods’ No-Recording Policy Unlawful

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 1/7/2016

In Whole Foods Market, Inc., the National Labor Relations Board, in a 2-1 decision, held that Whole Foods’ rules prohibiting the recording of conversations in the workplace violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor...more

NLRB Nixes “No Recording” Rule

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 1/5/2016

In Whole Foods Market, Inc., 363 NLRB No. 87 (Dec. 24, 2015), a divided three-member panel of the NLRB ruled that an employer’s blanket rule prohibiting workplace recording of conversations, phone calls, or images with a...more

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