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Fifth Circuit Scolds NLRB in Case about Employee Outbursts and Requires Board on Remand to Use Standard it Purported to Overrule

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On July 9, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit took the latest step in a continuing controversy about when obscenity or other misconduct by a worker, while raising otherwise protected job complaints,...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

NLRB Establishes New Test for Employer Discharge of Employees for Abusive Comments

New standard grants more leeway to employers to prohibit abusive conduct, even in connection with otherwise protected, concerted activity. The Board’s new standard will allow employers more predictability and discretion to...more

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Speak No Evil: The NLRB Drops “Setting-Specific” Standards for Cases Involving Abusive Employee Speech Made in the Course of...

The Trump-era National Labor Relations Board has struck again.  On July 21, 2020 in General Motors LLC, 14-CA-197985, 369 NLRB No. 127 (2020), the NLRB overruled longstanding precedent and rejected “setting-specific”...more

Morgan Lewis

NLRB Limits Protection Given to Abusive, Profane, or Offensive Workplace Conduct

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The National Labor Relations Board has finally abandoned its problematic standard around the discipline and discharge of employees who engage in abusive conduct in connection with protected concerted activity. On July 21, the...more

Epstein Becker & Green

The Board Brings the NLRA Into the Modern Era of Discipline for Abusive Conduct, and Union Leaders Lament “Guys Like Us, We Had It...

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On Tuesday, the three-member, all Republican, National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) issued a 3-0 decision in General Motors LLC and Charles Robinson, 369 NLRB No. 127 (July 21, 2020)...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

NLRB Adopts Single Rule to Evaluate Employee Misconduct

The National Labor Relations Board has traditionally applied separate tests to evaluate whether employee discipline violated the National Labor Relations Act, depending on the context of the underlying misconduct. This has...more

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