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Refusal to Hire Based on Facebook Postings Upheld by NLRB
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30021
Subject(s) - center (category theory) , labor relations , business , law , psychology , political science , public relations , crystallography , chemistry
Although the National Labor Relations Board has in a number of cases found discipline or termination of employees for their Facebook postings and comments to be unlawful, in a new decision the Board said employers may lawfully terminate employees whose Facebook postings indicate an intention to engage in insubordination ( Richmond District Neighborhood Center , 361 NLRB No. 74 (2014)).