Over the past year, employers have bemoaned the fact that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has decided: that two nursing home employees should be reinstated despite performance deficiencies that included patient safety issues; that an employee’s online and obscenity-laced rant was “protected activity” under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA); and that an employee’s
unfair labor practice
Does no good deed go unpunished under the National Labor Relations Act?
By Maria Danaher on
Posted in NLRA
A three-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently found that employee handbook provisions drafted in 2010 supported an unfair labor practice charge, even though those provisions were replaced by acceptable language in 2013.
That panel found that the employer’s issuance of a revised handbook in May of 2013 “did not constitute effective…