By:  Jeffrey A. Berman, Esq. & Nicholas R. Clements, Esq.

Until December 11, employers thought that they owned their email systems and so could limit their use to company business.  On that day, a divided National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”)  ruled “not so.”  In Purple Communications, 361 NLRB No. 126 (Dec. 11, 2014), the NLRB