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NLRB Finds the Posting of an Employer Memo Referencing “Dignity and Respect” and Its Lawful Workplace Violence Policy to be an Unfair Labor Practice

By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on January 8, 2015

Posted in Elections, NLRB, Unfair Labor Practices

In continuing to apply strict scrutiny to workplace communications, the Board in a 2-1 panel decision recently held that an employer acted unlawfully by posting a memorandum shortly after a union election, urging employees to treat each other with “dignity and respect” and reiterating its workplace violence policy, even though the…

Board Majority Finds Referring to Owner as a “F_ing Crook” and an “Ahole” No Bar to Reinstatement with Back Pay

By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on June 19, 2014

Posted in NLRB, Protected Concerted Activity, Unfair Labor Practices

By: Michael J. Rybicki, Esq.

Employers frequently express extreme frustration and bewilderment with respect to the Board and its decisions. We can only imagine how the owners of Plaza Auto Center, Inc. in Yuma, Arizona must feel following the Board’s Supplemental Decision in Plaza Auto Center, Inc., 360 NLRB No. 117, 199 LRRM…

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NLRB Finds the Posting of an Employer Memo Referencing “Dignity and Respect” and Its Lawful Workplace Violence Policy to be an Unfair Labor Practice

Board Majority Finds Referring to Owner as a “F_ing Crook” and an “Ahole” No Bar to Reinstatement with Back Pay

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