Labor-Management Relations

In an opinion likely effecting many Texas employers, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an employer’s confidentiality policy that prohibited employees from disclosing all company financial and personnel information without a carve-out for employee wage information violated the National Labor Relations Act.

Flex Frac, a non-union employer, required all of its employees to sign the following confidentiality

With union organization and membership at all time lows in the United States, the National Labor Relations Board is making a effort to stay relevant by pushing an agenda targeted on non-unionized workplaces.  Unfortunately, the Board’s positions, some of which are completely out of touch, may push it into irrelevance.

From its difficult to synthesize interpretation employer social

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2011-12 Term.  Here are summaries of the labor and employment cases decided this term.

Hosanna-Taylor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, (No. 10-553) (holding that teacher at religious school qualified as a "minister" within the meaning of the ministerial exception to Title VII and therefore

I suggested that employers should wait until November 14, 2011 (the implementation deadline) to post the new regulatory-requirement posting on employees’ NLRB rights because of several lawsuits seeking to enjoin the requirement.

The Board has now postponed the initial posting deadline until January 31, 2012 "to allow for further education and outreach."  I’m not sure

If you are are regular reader of this blog, you know that by November 14, 2011, most private employers (union and non-union) have to post notice of employees’ federal labor rights to form and join a union.  Some of you may have even already posted the NLRB-sanctioned poster.  

However, several lawsuits have been filed

I’ve previously written about the new NLRB requirement that most employers post notice of employee’s NLRB rights (post here).  The posting requirement is effective November 14, 2011, for both union and non-union employers.  Yesterday, the NLRB made available an appropriate posting for download.   The NLRB’s site also has answers to some commonly asked