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Will Your Workplace Conduct Rules Pass Muster With the NLRB?
Author(s) -
DeMaria Alfred T.
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.30074
Subject(s) - labor relations , business , work (physics) , publication , law , political science , law and economics , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering
It seems an issue of Management Report has seldom gone by over the past few years without at least one report of a case where the National Labor Relations Board has found that a nonunionized employer maintained unlawful work rules. As a remedy, the Board requires the employer to revise its rules and to publish an admission to all employees that it has maintained unlawful rules. These cases make clear that a company's normal workplace conduct and behavior rules could make it a target of the NLRB, even when the rules were reviewed and approved by the company's lawyers. This column looks at the effect of the National Labor Relations Act, as the NLRB currently interprets it, on rules for conduct and behavior. We also make suggestions on how to avoid the risk of having rules dragged before the NLRB for review.