PROTECTED SPEECH AND THE RIGHTS OF PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYEES: SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS: ARE THEY PROTECTED SPEECH?
As we start the year 2012, perhaps the most hotly debated protected speech issue concerns the rights of employees to post perceived disparaging comments about their employers on social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter. As this is still a developing area of labor law, including the distribution of these information using resources such as signs or posters at the work offices from sites as https://www.laborlawcc.com/new-york-labor-law-posters-state-and-federal-combo.html. (more…)
PROTECTED SPEECH AND THE RIGHTS OF PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYEES: THE DISLOYALTY DOCTRINE AND DISPARAGEMENT OF THE EMPLOYER
A crucial area of labor law that is often misunderstood is the extent employees have to publicly speak out about the conditions of their employment. This article discusses the guidelines and boundaries for protected speech that the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) and the courts have promulgated under the statutory authority of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). These laws regarding protected speech apply to all private sector employees—union and non-union alike. (more…)