United States: Employee Handbooks: Ripe for the Picking
- Topics:
- Employee Handbook
- Source:
- Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons
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Overview: The article is on employee handbooks that often contain provisions that violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Unknowing employers unfamiliar with their obligations under the Act typically craft broad employee handbook provisions that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determines stifle or threaten the employees’ right to participate in protected concerted activities. Most employee handbooks contain no-solicitation rules, no-access rules, rules regulating employee disruptions, insubordination, and abusive language etc. Overly broad and vague handbook provisions can lead to an NLRA violation and to the setting aside of an employer’s victory in a union representation election. Accordingly, it is important that employers review their employee handbooks with knowledgeable counsel versed in labor law to increase the odds of passing NLRB scrutiny.
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Format: HTML | Date: Sep 2003 | Pages: 1
