Employee Manuals Need Spring Cleaning Thanks to the NLRB
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Employee Manuals Need Spring Cleaning Thanks to the NLRB
Jason Shinn, writing at Michigan Employment Law Advisor:
But this is where employers really need to be concerned: The distinction between what is permissible and what is not is somewhat anemic to begin with, and if your company’s policies are too broad or poorly worded, then whatever distinction existed may be obliterated.
The full report is available in PDF format. The National Labor Relations Act is a federal law, and Section 7 applies whether or not employees are unionized. That means, as Shinn advises in the article, that every company with employees of any kind should perform a revision of their HR policies and procedures.