by Phil Wells | Jan 19, 2021 | Discipline/Termination, NLRB/Union
A couple of years ago, one of my relatives, who worked (notice, my emphasis added) in a public-facing job, called and asked me if it was legal that her boss had disciplined her for a Facebook post in which my relative responded not-so-nicely to a Facebook post by a...
by Soule Employment Law | Aug 13, 2019 | Employment Policies, NLRB/Union
In June of this year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued several “advice memoranda” on issues. Advice memoranda provide indications of how the NLRB’s legal team views certain workplace issues in enforcing the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and what...
by Soule Employment Law | Jul 1, 2018 | Discrimination, Legal Risk, NLRB/Union
I often hear employers utter variants of the following in one conversation: “Well, this is an at-will state, so I can fire them if I want,” later followed by “Like I said, this is a right-to-work state, so I can fire them any time!” However, these two terms are not...
by Mimi Soule | Nov 2, 2012 | Employment Policies, NLRB/Union
In September, I spoke to the Johnston County North Carolina Human Resources Association about the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its particularly active interest in employer polices regarding social media. For those of us living and working in a...
