Coming to a Workplace Near You: 5 Rules Every Non-Union (and Union) Employer Must Know
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1 Coming to a Workplace Near You: 5 Rules Every Non-Union (and Union) Employer Must Know We will begin shortly. Thank you for participating in our webinar.
2 Coming to a Workplace Near You: 5 Rules Every Non-Union (and Union) Employer Must Know September 20, 2011 John E. Krampf Matthew A. Bahl Verrill Dana, LLP jkrampf@verrilldana.com mbahl@verrilldana.com
3 I m Not Unionized. Why Should I Care? The National Labor Relations Act (Act) applies to most private employers (union and nonunion) that engage in interstate commerce. The National Labor Relations Board is the government agency tasked with enforcing the Act. Over the past year, the NLRB has expanded union rights through a series of decisions and administrative rules. The Board s actions have focused on helping unions organize non-union employers. Anyone, including unions, unionized employees and non-unionized employees can file an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB.
4 RULE 1: NOTICE POSTING
5 Rule Requirements Employers subject to the NLRA must post a notice informing their employees of their rights under the NLRA. The notice itself informs employees about their right to improve wages and working conditions, to form, join, and assist a union, to bargain collectively with their employer, and to refrain from any of these activities. Employers should post the notice in places where they customarily post other workplace notices. If an employer posts notices about personnel rules or policies on intranet or internet sites, they must either display an exact copy of the notice or a link to the Board s web page containing the notice.
6 Rule Requirements (cont.) Federal contractors required to post the DOL s notice of employee rights will not be required to post the NLRB s notice. Employers will have the option of downloading, printing and posting an 11 x 16-inch poster or downloading two 8.5 x 11-inch panels that can be taped together. Employers will be allowed to post black and white reproductions of the notice and will be permitted to use combination notices consolidating information about various federal laws on a single document as long as consolidation does not alter the size, format, content or size and style or type of the Notice provided by the Board. The Board s regional offices will not conduct inspections to verify that employers have posted the notice.
7 Rule Requirements (cont.) However, repeated failures to post the notice may be treated as an unfair labor practice and result in a cease-and-desist order from the Board. An employer s inadvertent failure to post will be resolved by bringing the rule s attention to the employer. An employer s knowing and willful failure to post may be used as evidence of an unlawful motive in prosecuting other violations of the Act. Employers must post the notice by November 14, The notice will be available on the NLRB s website ( in early November.
8 Rule s Purpose and Effect? Notify employees of their rights under the NLRA. Encourage employees to seek out and form unions.
9 RULE 2: Quickie Election
10 Background Typically, the election process takes between 40 and 45 days. Organized labor has long complained that the length of time between filing an election petition and the actual vote unfairly erodes employee support for unions. The Employee Free Choice Act ( EFCA ), in part, would have allowed unions to skip the normal election process through card recognition procedures. EFCA is a lame duck. This new rule, however, would give unions a quicker election process.
11 Make Board review of post-election decisions discretionary rather than mandatory. Proposed Rule s Features Allow unions to file petitions and other documents electronically. Standardize timeframes for pre-election hearings (seven days after service of hearing notice) and post-election hearings (14 days after the tally of ballots). Mandate employers provide a final voter list (also known as an Excelsior list) with employee phone numbers and addresses in electronic from within two (2) days of the direction of election. Require the union and employer to identify pre-election issues (like voter eligibility) and describe their supporting evidence within seven (7) days after an election petition is filed. Consolidate all election-related appeals to the Board in a single post-election appeals process thus eliminating pre-election requests for review of the Regional Directors decisions, including voter eligibility determinations.
12 Proposed Rule s Purpose and Effect? Streamline the election process. Elections will be held within 10 to 21 days. And the rules significantly limit an employer s right to communicate with its workforce and to petition the government for redress.
13 RULE 3: Cherry-Pick
14 Background Employees in the appropriate unit are eligible to vote in NLRA elections. Under the NLRA, it is fundamental that the Board need only find an appropriate unit, not the most appropriate unit. In the past all groups of employees who shared a community of interest were included, not excluded from, the unit.
15 Specialty Healthcare Case Board found that Certified Nursing Assistants ( CNA ) at a long-term care facility was an appropriate unit. The employer appealed contending a unit that included other employees, including other healthcare workers, was the appropriate unit. The Board rejected the appeal and found that a unit consisting solely of CNAs was appropriate. In reaching this conclusion, the Board overruled a 1991 decision that established a much broader definition of which employees in the healthcare setting should be included in the bargaining unit. In other words, the Board endorsed a most appropriate unit approach.
16 New Rule New rule now requires employers to make an overwhelming community of interest showing to include employees in the bargaining unit. Although case was in the healthcare context, there is no indication that its application is limited to healthcare employers.
17 Purpose and Effect? New rule for determining who should be in a bargaining unit. Makes it easier for unions to select which employees to organize. In effect, it allows unions to cherry-pick employees who will vote in favor of unionization. Supports the nose under the tent organizing approach. In tandem with the quickie election rules, employer s face an up-hill battle in challenging a union s petitionedfor bargaining unit.
18 Rule 4: Social Media
19 Background Over the last several months the NLRB has been focusing on employees right to use social media to comment on and discuss their working conditions. The NLRB has even prosecuted employers for discharging a unionized employee who posted a negative comment about her boss on Facebook and for disciplining a unionized employee for posting critical remarks on Twitter. However, the Board declined to prosecute an employer for disciplining an employee whose Facebook comments were simply individual gripes.
20 CONFUSED?
21 Recognizing the confusion, the Board issued a memo in August 2011 that summarized 14 key cases involving social media, with the goal of providing guidance on this hot-button issue.
22 Key to the Analysis: Protected Concerted Activity Section 7 of the NLRA gives employees (both union and non-union) the right to engage in protected concerted activity. Protected concerted activity occurs when two or more employees act together to address a collective employee concern. However, a single employee acting on behalf of others, or who is initiating group action, or who has discussed the matter with co-workers, can also be engaged in protected concerted activity.
23 You Make The Call: Protected or Not? After work, during a heated fantasy football draft at a local sports bar, Sam Supervisor tells Earl Employee in front of co-workers that he made a horrible decision by selecting Brett Favre. Employee Earl, on his personal computer, posts to his Facebook account that: I can t believe my boss today. What a creep. He really embarrassed me in front of my colleagues. LOL.
24 You Make The Call: Protected Or Not? During a work meeting, Ringo and Bono, two employees with singing aspirations, keep interrupting their Supervisor with singing jokes. The Supervisor tells them, Hey, pipe down you two. This is important. Undeterred, Bono posts on his personal blog ( R.O.C.K. In The USA ) that: I will be a star one day, I don t care what my boss says. And for that matter, Ringo and I are sick of our supervisor picking on us. He doesn t treat other people this way, I don t know why he singles me out.
25 You Make The Call: Protected or Not? During a workplace incident investigation, which is standard policy, Sara Supervisor questions Emily Employee about the incident. Emily asks if her friend (Earl) can sit in with her because she is afraid of Sara. Sara says, No. Earl has to wait his turn. Shocked by this, Sara goes home and Tweets (on her personal computer): Tough meeting at work today, wish Earl could ve been there to help my supervisor can be a real jerk sometimes. What do you think?
26 Another Highlight From The Report Even if the social media post is laced with profanity and sarcasm, the employee s post might be protected. For example, in one case the NLRB found that an employee did not lose the Act s protection when she described her supervisor as a scumbag and other derogatory terms on her Facebook page. The NLRB noted that it has found more egregious namecalling protected and found significant that the employee s comments were motivated by her supervisor s unlawful failure to honor her request for union representation.
27 Purpose and Effect? Reconcile a law written in 1947 with the modern digital age. Although the memo provides some clarifications, employee social media posts must be analyzed on a case-bycase basis.
28 Rule 5: Bannering
29 What is Bannering? Bannering involves placing large stationary signs or objects near businesses that are not involved in a labor dispute with the union (a.k.a. secondary employers). In two recent cases the Board has distinguished between picketing and bannering, even though both look and feel largely the same. The distinction is important because picketing at a secondary employer s worksite for an extended period of time is unlawful (in most contexts). For example:
30 Carpenters Local 1827 Case Union had a dispute with several construction firms they claimed failed to pay wages that met area standards. The Union bannered several neutral employers that did business with the construction firm, including State Farm Insurance. The Union displayed a banner that said State Farm Insurance, a Greedy Corporate Citizen, but kept the banner on public sidewalks at least 24 feet away from the entrance. The Board found that such conduct did not constitute threatening, coercing or restraining a secondary employer in violation of the Act.
31 Purpose and Effect? Expands a union s right to involve neutral employers in their labor disputes. Force neutral employers to put pressure on those employers involved in the labor dispute.
32 What Can You Do Now To Prepare? With all these new rules, here are some things you can do now to be prepared: 1) Educate your workforce on the risks and downsides of unionization. 2) Educate your workforce on what signing a union authorization card really means. 3) Review, and if necessary, revise your social media policy to account for protected concerted activity.
33 QUESTIONS?
34 Contact Information John Krampf Phone: Cell: Matt Bahl Phone:
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