California has become the latest state to ban employers from requiring employees to attend “captive-audience” meetings on unions. Captive-audience meetings are where employers inform workers during an organizing drive about the advantages and disadvantages of union membership, and workers who don’t attend are often disciplined. We’ve gathered articles on the news from SHRM and other outlets.
Employers in California cannot require workers to attend captive-audience meetings or other gatherings on political or religious topics under a measure Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on Sept. 27. Unions maintain that captive-audience meetings are used to intimidate workers and spread misinformation about organizing. Employers assert that a ban is unnecessary under federal labor laws and that it is an overreach that violates employers’ First Amendment rights.
Illinois has banned mandatory attendance at any company meetings that are used to try to persuade workers that they would be better off without unions. The law takes effect Jan. 1, 2025.
(SHRM)
Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington state have made it illegal for employers to require attendance at meetings that are intended to share employers’ arguments against unions. These states also prohibit employer discipline against employees for failure...
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