Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Intellectual Property Law Blogs -> IP Spotlight
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense
Find a Local Lawyer
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402
Intellectual Property Law
: IP SpotlightNLRB Rules Employees Have No Statutory Right to use E-Mail System for Union Activities
By Jim Singer
Today’s note relates to HR issues: specifically, e-mail usage policies. Companies with unionized employees should review a December 2007 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision which ruleed that an employer’s e-mail system is private, and that employees have no statutory right to use the e-mail system for union business — even if other, non-business e-mail is permitted.
My colleague Mike Canavan has prepared a detailed review of the NLRB decision in The Guard Publishing Company d/b/a The Register-Guard and Eugene Newspaper Guild. To review Mike’s analysis of the decision, click here.
Full post as published by IP Spotlight on January 09, 2008 (boomark / email).
Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules
Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.
Gay Marriage Laws
Where same sex couples can marry
Child Support Survival Guide
The Child Support Enforcement System
Westinghouse
alleging that former Westinghouse employees are being deprived of a choice in health care prescription plan benefits that were formerly available to them through union bargaining.
Explicit E-Mail
Adult website fined $413,000 in explicit e-mail matter.
VA Sets New Benefit Rules for Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses
Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses VA Sets New Benefit Rules
Overtime for Programmers
alleging that some companies try to avoid paying employees overtime by categorizing them as "salaried" employees.
Daniel V. Leccese Sr.
$250,000 fine for felony mail fraud.
Windows Software
Microsoft fined $1.3 billion for failing to comply with the European Union's antitrust order.
#1 Online Legal Resource
On 08-25 at 15:46PM
Acute perpendicular parking #NYPD #NYFD
On 08-18 at 22:18PM
Parallel parking gone bad. Too much gas UES NYC
On 08-18 at 21:41PM
UES NYC
On 08-18 at 21:25PM
Twitter suspends journalist critical of broadcast partner's coverage on dubious grounds @guyadams #nbcfail #twitterfail
On 07-30 at 17:57PM
Model example of 1st Amendment suppression by the People of New York City's Michael Bloomberg #OWS #NYPD
On 07-12 at 21:07PM
AG Holder lackadaisical on Operation in our Sites domain name seizures & RIAA lobbied free speech suppression @dajaz1
On 06-08 at 22:44PM
Why is the Catholic Church going to court over Obama contraception policy? @NewYorker commentary
On 05-31 at 10:08AM
Monks sue Louisiana for right to sell caskets made from forrest destroyed by Katrina
On 05-31 at 07:47AM
Are the abortion ultrasound laws headed for the Supreme Court?
On 05-15 at 21:52PM
"Employees Have No Right to Use Employer E-Mail to Solicit for Union, NLRB Rules"
Conduct of Union Organizing Committee Not Attributed To Union
 |
|
Contact Us | About Us | Celebrity Law Blog |
Our Partners | Disclaimer
| Law Blog Directory
| Law Jobs
| Law Tweets
| Oil Spill Video
All original material © 1999-2011 by USLaw.com. All other material, including Blog Directory feed content, are © by their respective copyright holders. |