For the last four years or so, employers have generally had more flexibility to craft their everyday personnel policies than they did in prior years due to a favorable legal standard issued by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in 2017. However, the NLRB is on the cusp of reviewing this issue, and based on its current constitution, many are predicting significant changes that will restrict how employers can draft their policies.
According to Bloomberg Law:
“The National Labor Relations Board’s reconsideration of its Trump-era legal framework for workplace rules and employee handbooks has put companies in limbo, with management-side lawyers divided on whether businesses should begin retooling policies or wait until the board rules. Public comments are due [March 7] on the NLRB potentially scrapping the standard from its 2017 Boeing ruling and replacing it with a more restrictive test for determining if employer policies unlawfully infringe on employees’ rights to work together to improve job conditions.”
In sum, a ruling from the NLRB is expected in the coming months that could significantly implicate and impact a range of HR policies maintained by companies – union and non-union alike.
For example, under the Board’s precedent prior to 2017, the NLRB routinely found confidentiality policies that stated employees were expected to safeguard and not disclose any “confidential information” to be unlawful. The rationale was that merely stating “confidential information”...
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