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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

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

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

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

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

A Hint Of Change: NLRB Allows Employer To Defend Blanket Prohibition On Use Of Cameras/Video Recording Devices

Amundsen Davis LLC on 5/17/2017

Recently, there has been much discussion about the composition of the five-member board in Washington, D.C., including President Trump’s appointment of Philip Miscimarra as National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairman, and...more

NLRB Says Social Media Policy Cannot Prohibit Employees from Posting Pictures of Company Uniforms

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 12/14/2016

At least for now, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues its assault on employer social media policies. In a recent Board decision, G4S Secure Solutions (USA), Inc., the majority declared a variety of policies...more

Can Healthcare Providers Prohibit Employees From Using Recording Devices in the Workplace?

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/14/2016

In the wake of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) decision in Whole Foods Market, Inc., 363 NLRB No. 87 (Dec. 24, 2015), hospitals and healthcare providers will need to revisit their employee recording policies. This...more

Are Pennsylvania Employers Safe to Prohibit Recordings in the Workplace?

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/14/2016

In an age of smartphones and wearable technology, one cannot escape the possibility that he or she is being recorded at any given time. The workplace is not immune from such possibilities as employees often carry—or sometimes...more

NLRB Says Employers Cannot Stop Employees From Recording Conversations In Meetings

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 3/2/2016

On December 24, 2015, employees who want to make video and audio recordings of co-workers and company meetings received a holiday gift. In Whole Foods Inc. and United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 919, the National...more

NLRB Again Says Employers Cannot Impose Blanket Ban on Employee Recording in Workplace

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 1/20/2016

Like many employers, Whole Foods adopted a policy prohibiting employees from conducting unauthorized recording of conversations, phone calls or meetings, regardless of the recording technology used. Employers generally...more

Are You on Candid Camera? The NLRB Just Made It More Difficult to Ban the Use of Recording Devices in the Workplace

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/18/2016

On December 24, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in Whole Foods Market, Inc., 363 NLRB No. 87 (Dec. 24, 2015), finding for the first time that it is unlawful for an employer to adopt a work...more

To Record or Not to Record, That is the Question

Miller & Martin PLLC on 1/14/2016

Eliminating any possibility that it might wind up on employers' "nice list," the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled on Christmas Eve that a Whole Foods policy featuring an "absolute prohibition" on employees "taking...more

Employers Should Take Care When Prohibiting Workplace Recordings

Foley & Lardner LLP on 1/13/2016

A number of years ago, one of the nation’s largest grocery stores banned its employees from recording workplace conversations, images, or meetings without prior management approval or consent by all parties to a conversation....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

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