Tag Archives: NLRB
NLRB: Nice Companies Finish Last
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has decided that a policy encouraging employees of an Illinois BMW dealership to be courteous to one another violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRA prohibits punishing employees for discussing working conditions … Continue reading
Plug or Perish
For FVLD’s September Legal Update, Jon Vegosen writes about the NLRB’s controversial stance on some common social media policies. As Jon explains, these developments raise concerns for employers. For example, many employers have trade secrets and other confidential and proprietary … Continue reading
Plug or Perish
Entrepreneur Magazine’s Daily Dose recently spoke with Damon Dunn about two recent cases on First Amendment protection for public employees’ Facebook “likes”. We previously discussed the cases here. Should a “Like” be protected as freedom of speech? Damon E. Dunn, … Continue reading
Public Employees Sue After Being Fired for Facebook “Likes”
A federal judge in Virginia recently held that “liking” a Facebook post is not sufficiently expressive to warrant First Amendment protection. One of the plaintiffs in Bobby Bland et al. v. B.J. Roberts alleged he lost his job with a … Continue reading
Toll of “Facebook Victims” Mounts
Although social media is no longer a new phenomenon, evidently even people who should know better still have not grasped that nothing on the Internet is confidential. What’s more, there is no sure demarcation between private postings and those that … Continue reading
NLRB Orders Reinstatement of Fired Nonunion Facebook Posters
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is continuing its campaign against employers who retaliate against employees for social media posts complaining about their jobs. This time the NLRB charged a nonunion nonprofit corporation, Hispanics United of Buffalo, Inc., which fired … Continue reading
Teacher Disciplined for Gay Marriage Post Invokes First Amendment
A former Teacher of the Year is claiming that his First Amendment rights are being violated by a school district investigation into a Facebook post that he “almost threw up” while watching news about gay marriage and calling it a … Continue reading
Plug or Perish
HR Advisor recently featured Damon Dunn’s article, “Social Media Policies: Walking a Tightrope” (.pdf). The article provides a more extensive analysis of the “Facebook Firing” case, previously discussed on Post or Perish, where the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found … Continue reading
NLRB Attempts to Clarify its Regulation of Social Media
A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Advice Memorandum recently opined (.pdf) that an Arizona newspaper did not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it fired a reporter for a series of allegedly inappropriate Tweets. The NLRA protects employees … Continue reading
Reuters to Allow Freedom of Tweets
Earlier this month, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reportedly threatened to take action against Thomson Reuters for its response to a reporter’s critical tweet relating to Reuters’ recently settled dispute with the Newspaper Guild of New York. As part … Continue reading
NLRB Settles Facebook Claim
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has settled its claim against a Connecticut ambulance company that fired an employee who had bashed the company and her boss on Facebook. The NLRB alleged that the employee’s comments – which drew responses … Continue reading
