Labor and Employment Law Blog

NLRB’s Email Rule May Be Coming to an End

In its 2014 decision Purple Communications Inc. and Communication Workers of America, the NLRB ruled that employees could generally use employers’ email systems to organize or engage in other concerted activities protected by Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, overturning board precedent and causing employers everywhere to scramble to update employee handbooks and […]

October 1, 2018 | 1 min read | Tagged: Company Email, Labor, NLRA, NLRB, Policy, Protected Communications, Protected Concerted Activity, Purple Communications, Section 7

David P. Williams Counsel

Employees Use of Their Employers’ Email Resources for Union Activities

In Purple Communications Inc., 361 NLRB No. 126 (December 11, 2014) the NLRB reversed established precedent that employees did not have statutory rights to use their employers’ email resources for union activity. In that case, the Board held that employees that have been given access to their employers’ email systems, must be permitted to use […]

March 26, 2018 | 2 min read | Tagged: Administrative Law Judge, Board, Email, Ninth Circuit, Protected Communications, Protected Concerted Activity, Purple Communications, Region 28, Robert A. Cole, Trump, Union Activities, Unions, Voicemail

Jerry Morales Of Counsel