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Workplace Communication
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SimplyHR
NLRB Requires Employers to Allow Use of Work E-Mail for Union Purposes
Reversing existing Board precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board” or “NLRB”) recently ruled that employers that allow employees access to work e-mail systems must presumptively allow their employees to…
Employer Labor Relations
NLRB Finds the Posting of an Employer Memo Referencing “Dignity and Respect” and Its Lawful Workplace Violence Policy to be an Unfair Labor Practice
By: Kenneth R. Dolin In continuing to apply strict scrutiny to workplace communications, the Board in a 2-1 panel decision recently held that an employer acted unlawfully by posting a…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
NLRB Reverses Register Guard; Grants Workers Right to Use Employer Email System for Section 7 Purposes
As reported in the Hunton Employment and Labor Perspectives Blog, in Purple Communications, Inc., a divided National Labor Relations Board held that employees have the right to use their employers'…
Management Memo
NLRB Holds Employees Have the Right to Use Company Email Systems for Union Organizing
Updated, 12/12/14 — In its Purple Communications, Inc., decision, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) has ruled that “employee use of email for statutorily protected communications on nonworking time…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
Sticks and Stones Can Break Bones, but the Wrong Words Can Hurt Your Business
By Troutman Pepper Locke's Labor + Employment Group
Over the last two years, the amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) have been a prominent and well-discussed topic of employment law. The changes are substantial and significant,…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Problems with grammar in the workplace
“Managers are fighting an epidemic of grammar gaffes in the workplace.” So writes Sue Shellenbarger in a June 20 Wall Street Journal article. Managers tend to attribute this epidemic to…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
The Value of Compliments for Employees
Molly Dibianca at Delaware Employment Blog describes a person she knows who was passed over for promotion at a large company in the private sector. The difficult thing for the…
Zen and the Art of Legal Networking
Uh Oh: My Email Was Misinterpreted. What Now?
I like to think that I have a good sense of humor and believe that there is room for friendliness in a professional relationship. But I'll admit to being surprised,…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Using ALL CAPS in New Zealand can get you fired, mate!
This story reminds us that in writing, tone matters. According to the blog "Social Networking and the Law" a female employee at a New Zealand health care company called ProCare was…
Labor Law Prof Blog
The D.C. Circuit’s Register-Guard Decision
The D.C. Circuit has just released its review of the NLRB's Register-Guard decision, in which the Board refused to give employees protection when using employer-owned email and severely restricted the…