Perspective
Sep. 27, 2012
NLRB's social media guidelines apply to nonunion workforces
The board has made it clear that its guidelines on social media issues apply to all employers, not just those with unionized workforces. By Heather Sager of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
In the past year, the acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued three advisory memoranda on social media issues. However, until Sept. 7, the NLRB had not issued any formal rulings in this subject area. That has now changed, via Costco Wholesale Corporation and United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 371, No. 34-CA-012421.
Why do I care, you say? Well, the NLRB has made it abundantly clear that i...
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