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Labor/Employment

Aug. 8, 2014

Workplaces walk a tightrope when it comes to employee handbooks

Management-side attorneys see the National Labor Relations Board's recent scrutiny over the wording in employee handbooksrulings as part of a larger effort to expand its role into nonunionized workplaces.


By Laura Hautala


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Perhaps everyone has wondered at some point in his or her career, what does the person next to me earn? Whether airing that information would be a good thing might be debatable. But a federal labor regulator wants to make one thing very clear: Employees have a legal right to discuss how much they and their co-workers earn, in addition to their benefits and working conditions.

The National Labor Relations ...

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