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Majority Wants to Teach Employers a Diction Lesson
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.20133
Subject(s) - diction , scrutiny , duty , tone (literature) , capital (architecture) , business , public relations , law , psychology , political science , history , linguistics , philosophy , poetry , archaeology
In Hitachi Capital America Corp. , 361 NLRB No. 19 (2014), an employee was discharged for the tone of her e‐mails to supervisors, which the employer said violated a rule prohibiting “inappropriate behavior” in the workplace. In its decision that the employee was instead discharged for her protected concerted activity, the National Labor Relations Board demonstrated that it believes (1) employers have a duty to scrutinize the minute details of an employee's word choices in her e‐mails and (2) that the fact of such required scrutiny in itself can be all the evidence needed that the employer should have known that the employee's e‐mail constituted protected concerted activity.