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The Employer Handbook BlogCan a company require new employees not to bash it on Glassdoor? Is that legal?
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Articles Posted in Unions (labor relations)
You know that employee that won’t shut up about being underpaid? Yeah, well, you may be stuck with that person.
At first glance, this recent National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Advice Memorandum, with all its redactions and such, seems hardly worth the trouble to parse through.
But, that’s why they pay me the big bucks bupkis to blog and try to make something out of nothing. And I’ve done just that for you today. Continue reading
NLRB: Maybe, after all, it’s not ok for employees to call their bosses nasty motherf***ers
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board announced here that it wants your input — actually your lawyers will have to submit a brief — “on whether the Board should reconsider its standards for profane outbursts and offensive statements of a racial or sexual nature.” Continue reading
Could misclassifying an employee as an independent contractor violate the FLSA and federal labor law too?!?
By National Labor Relations Board – http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Press%20Announcements/2010/A-08.pdf, Public Domain, Link
Just because you say that an employee is an independent contractor doesn’t make it so. Many companies have found that out the hard way when the U.S. Department of Labor comes knocking for a wage and hour audit.
But, could this misclassification also be an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act? Continue reading
Common social media polices. Guess which ones are actually unlawful.
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All right, Einstein.
Let’s test your social media policy savvy. Continue reading
Vacation Thread: Probably best not to threaten to fire employees who support unionization
By Ivan Curra, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
(Not pictured: Eric Meyer; probably off grabbing a Dole Whip (adult version) and a turkey leg). Continue reading
NLRB: An employer’s “sign this arbitration agreement or you’re fired” edict is totally cool with us
Image by Andreas Breitling from Pixabay
What a difference a few years make. Continue reading
Yes, you can be fired for cursing about clients in the office bathroom
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Girl Scout Cookies and Employment Law – Almost Everything That HR Needs To Know
Won’t you help little Ivy Meyer achieve her Girl Scout Cookies sales goal?
It’s that time of year again.
Coworkers have begun bombarding you with requests to purchase Girl Scout Cookies. So, in that spirit, let’s tackle:
- Whether unions will start organizing your workplace if you relax your no-solicitation policy to allow employees to sell Girl Scout Cookies;
- Can employees use your email system to proselytize if co-workers use it to sell Girl Scout Cookies; and
- A bonus discrimination case involving the sale of Girl Scout Cookies gone terribly wrong.
The NLRB may exterminate Scabby The Rat, and I have mixed feelings about that.
Yep, that’s me about eight years ago posing with my first-born and an inflatable rat.
His name is Scabby. The rat, that is. And he may be going away for good soon.