Labor Days
An Unforgiving NLRB Holds That Protecting Patient Data Under HIPAA Can Still Violate Section 7 Rights
It would make sense that the systems housing patient records at a physician’s office should be protected by a robust duty on the part of the physician’s employees to keep such records confidential. The purpose, of…
NLRB’s Handbook on Handbooks
As we all know, the NLRB has been working hard in recent years to expand its reach beyond the union workforce – striving to make its decisions and guidance just as relevant to the non-union employer in an age where…
No Such Thing as “No Harm, No Foul”?
Everybody knows that an activist National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) expects a lot of all employers nowadays, union and non-union. One of the areas under the greatest NLRB scrutiny are time-honored, well-worn…
Enforcing Your Workplace Violence Policy? Not So Fast, According to the NLRB
In what some may consider a stunning decision, the NLRB recently held in Care One at Madison Avenue, LLC, 361 NLRB No. 159, that an employer’s enforcement of its workplace violence policy violated its employees’…
NLRB Rejects Challenge to Small Bargaining Unit And Rules That Macy’s Must Bargain With Cosmetics Union
No bargaining unit too small? Certainly not for the National Labor Relations Board. Earlier this month, the NLRB rejected Macy’s argument that a cosmetics bargaining unit was too narrow and ordered the retailer to…