Topic
Cell Phone Policy
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Labor Relations Update
NLRB: Policy Prohibiting Personal Cell Phones in Work Areas Due to Safety Concerns May Be Lawful under Boeing
By Mark Theodore, Joshua Fox, Elizabeth Dailey
As we previously suggested, the NLRB’s adoption of the Boeing standard for determining the lawfulness of employer’s workplace rules, policies and handbook provisions has provided significant fodder for interesting cases.…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
NLRB: Employer Allowed to Ban Cellphones in Beverage Production and Warehouse Working Areas
By Ronald Meisburg, Robert T. Dumbacher
In another decision recognizing employers’ rights to issue reasonable prohibitions even if they have some slight impact of employees’ right to engage in concerted activity under the National Labor Relations…
School Law
CAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 6/19/2019
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter. Written by attorney Thomas B. Mooney. Dear Legal Mailbag: In an attempt to reduce electronic device distractions and to maintain an academic culture…
Creating a Bridge Across the Atlantic Blog
U.S. LEGAL UPDATE: EMPLOYEES & CELL PHONE USE
In a recently released Advice Memo, ADT, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board Office of General Counsel (NLRB) has concluded that prohibiting the use of personal cell-phone at all times during…
Best Practices Construction Law
Contractors: Do You Have a Cell Phone Policy? Is It Time for an Upgrade?
Smart phones and tablets are now commonplace on the construction job site. Are your cell phone policies as outdated as the original the flip phones that you issued to your…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: States and Fracking, Employees and Smartphones, FINRA
The conversation around EEOC v. Abercrombie just continues—both over on LXBN, where Zosha rounds up commentary, and here in the Top 10, where Jennifer Gokenbach has an excellent breakdown. Total…
Employment Law Worldview
Practical Implications for French Employers of Recent Changes to SYNTEC National Collective Bargaining Agreement
On 11 April 2014, we published an Alert concerning a new addendum to the SYNTEC National Collective Bargaining Agreement in France. This change generated extensive worldwide media coverage, including reports…
Wisconsin Business Law Blog
New IRS Notice on Tax Treatment of Employee Cell Phones
By John Bruce
On September 14, 2011 the IRS issued Notice 2011-72, intended to provide "guidance on the tax treatment of cellular telephones or other similar telecommunications equipment (hereinafter collectively 'cell phones') that…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
cell phone solution
To see one way to handle the situation when a student’s cell phone goes off in class, click here. Apparently there’s a federal judge in the Eastern District of California…
School Law
SEE YOU IN COURT! – April 2010
The teachers in Nutmeg are generally a docile and cooperative bunch. However, the epidemic of texting and other inappropriate cell phone use was driving them to distraction, and a delegation…