The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision yesterday in a long-litigated case that further defined how two entities could be considered joint employers under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The decision overturned the Regional Director’s finding that workers provided by a staffing agency to a recycling plant were not considered employees of
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NLRB Upholds Employee Terminations for Facebook Rant
By Keith Covington on
Posted in NLRB
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the recent line of NLRB cases examining what constitutes “protected, concerted” activity in the context of employees engaging in profane, insulting, or disrespectful conduct or talk about their jobs or their supervisors. As I noted, there is a clear trend at the NLRB to find…