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
A federal judge in the Northern District of Texas has enjoined the National Mediation Board from conducting a union representation election involving the passenger-service employees of a major air carrier and the Communication Workers of America. You can read the TRO here.
By now we know that one of two federal district courts considering the issue has upheld the NLRB’s power to mandate most employers post Notice of Employee’s NLRB rights to form and join unions. While the NLRB is making employers educate employees about some rights under the NLRA, the required posting doesn’t go far enough in
I wrote before about several challenges to the NLRB’s controversial rule requiring employers to post notice of employee rights to form and join a union. Today, a court has rule on one of those challenges. In essence, the Court upheld the NLRB’s ability to require employers to post the notice of employee rights. However
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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