Oct
15
2015
California Employers: More 2015 bills signed
Governor Jerry Brown has signed more bills from the 2015 California legislative session that affect employers, some of which are extremely significant.
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News, trends and analysis in employment law and HR
Sep
21
2015
Q&ALabor Relations
What rights extend to personal vehicles on company property?
Can I require an employee, who parks on company property while at work, to remove a large Confederate flag flying in his truck?
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Aug
06
2015
Employee fired for “gossiping” about potential firing wins case against employer
Termination of an employee for telling coworkers about a job posting she believed was for an existing job with their Oregon employer was illegal, ruled the National Labor Relations Board.
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Jan
27
2015
Can we require employees to keep quiet about their wages?
Q: We’re worried that morale could be hurt by employees comparing their salary or wages with one another. Can we prohibit our employees from discussing their wages?
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Dec
12
2014
Alert: Employees may use company email for protected communications
The National Labor Relations Board decided yesterday that if an employer gives employees access to its email system in the course of their work, those employees are entitled to use their email to band together to discuss their wages, hours, and working conditions during non-working time.
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Sep
10
2014
Executive Order requires scrutiny of labor law violations
The President recently issued an executive order to require certain federal contractors to disclose labor law violations, provide paycheck notices to employees, and refrain from requiring nonunion employees to sign certain pre-dispute arbitration clauses.
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Jun
20
2014
Employee’s outburst protected despite threats and profanity
A car dealership terminated a car salesman who, during an outburst, hurled expletives and insults toward the owner of the dealership, but the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that the salesman was engaging in protected “concerted activity.”
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Apr
24
2014
NLRA game changer: College football players get green light to unionize
Many observers were quite surprised by the recent decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)’s regional office in Chicago which allowed scholarship football players at Northwestern University to form a union. Interestingly, the ruling only applies to the 85 scholarship players on the team within the proposed bargaining unit and…
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Apr
08
2014
Labor RelationsWage and Hour
CALIFORNIA: Collective Bargaining Agreements Can Determine Overtime Compensation
Collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) can, in certain cases, override strict state laws on overtime, ruled a California court of appeals.
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Oct
17
2013
NLRA protects workers’ complaints and other activities
Q: One of our employees complains all the time. Today we learned he started a Facebook page that says our company sucks. We have a policy prohibiting disparagement of our organization. Can we tell him if he doesn’t like it here, he can leave?
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