Employer Law Blog
December 15, 2014
EMPLOYER ALERT- NLRB Extends Employees’ Right to Engage in Protected and Concerted Activity to Employer’s E-mail Systems
The National Labor Relations Board in its continued effort to assist labor unions and employee unionization efforts has provided employees with an effective organizing tool—their employer’s own email systems. In 2007, the NLRB in Register Guard held “employees can have no statutory right to use their employer's email systems for Section 7 purposes.