Employee Handbooks in 2023 : Learn How the NLRB Challenges Employee Handbook Policies!

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On August 2, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) adopted a new burden-shifting standard for evaluating whether work rules infringe upon employees’ rights under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
Employers will need to think carefully about how to defend some of their corporate policies, such as ones about cameras at a worksite, social media use, and appropriate workplace conduct, in light of a recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
In Stericycle, an administrative law judge found that the employer violated the NLRA by maintaining certain policies for its employees that addressed personal conduct, conflicts of interest, and confidentiality of harassment complaints. The NLRB announced a new standard for whether work rules violate the NLRA and sent the case back to the judge to consider the ruling in light of the new standard.
Under that standard, if an employee could reasonably interpret the work rule to have a coercive meaning, the NLRB general counsel would have met her burden to prove that the rule has a reasonable tendency to chill employees from exercising their NLRA rights.
A code of conduct or other Employee Handbook policies will certainly be impacted by this decision. Other impacted policies would be nondisclosure agreements, confidentiality agreements, any policies requiring respectful conduct, or policies regulating social media use.
Learn how Employers should review and make changes to their Employee Handbook policies to comply with the NLRB Rules and avoid allegations of “Violations of Concerted Activity Laws”.
The NLRB enforces the National Labor Relations Act, which gives both unionized and non-union employees certain rights in the workplace. Find out how the changes at the NLRB may affect your company and why you might want to start making changes in your Employee Handbook now.
Session Highlights
- Learn how the NLRB impacts employee handbooks and why we should care.
- Learn how the NLRA and the NLRB impact employee handbook policies and how the NLRB interprets the policies by employers.
- Learn how concerted activity is a critical protection impacted by the employee handbook policies.
- Learn how creating an effective employee handbook will help employers mitigate federal, state, local, and NLRB requirements.
- Learn how the Boeing & Stericycle case decisions will impact and how employers will interpret NLRB enforcement.
- Learn what Role the NLRA and the NLRB have on non-union employees.
- Learn how employees can have leverage over employers based on employee handbook policies on disciplinary actions involving employee workplace behaviors.
- Learn what policies are at risk of violating the new NLRB laws.
- Learn how you can prepare for the changes before you are violated for non-compliance.
- Learn which policies should be revised immediately.
- Learn how training of HR/Managers/Supervisors will impact the company effectively and should be mandated as part of the policy changes.
Why You Should Attend
Employers should also “immediately review their policies and handbooks to determine if any of their existing policies could reasonably be interpreted by employees as chilling their right to engage in concerted activities and consider adding disclaimers that the policies are not intended to restrict employees’ rights under the NLRA.
The new rule applies retroactively, so even those employee handbooks drafted and implemented before the stericycle decision are subject to this heightened level of scrutiny.
The NLRA protects “concerted activities” that employees engage in to improve working conditions. What is concerted activity and why should employers Care?
Protected Concerted Activity is a legal term used in labor policy to define employee protection against employer retaliation in the United States. The term defines the activities workers may partake in without fear of employer retaliation.
Who Should Attend
- All Private Employers
- Business Owners
- Company Leadership
- Compliance professionals
- HR Professionals
- Managers/Supervisors
- Private Employers in all industries
- Small Business Owners
- Large Business Owners
Speaker(s)
Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP is a senior level human resources professional with over 14 years of HR management and compliance experience. A former Compliance Officer for Federal Defense Contracting Industry, Margie has worked as an HR and Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public and Non-profit sectors. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.
Margie’s focus is on multi-state, national, state and local workplace compliance. Additionally, Margie is working on International compliance initiatives globally which includes workplace compliance in other countries like the UK, Canada, France, Brazil, China, Africa, Mexico and India, just to name a few.
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