Learn how NLRA impacts all employers, including those without unions, and what companies need to do to remain compliant.
Employees have the right under the National Labor Relations Act to form together for their mutual aid and protection and to engage in concerted activity to better their working conditions or protest those conditions. Although these actions usually occur in a union setting, nonunion employees also enjoy these protections and rights.
Additionally, although nonunion employers are not bound to or confined by a collective bargaining agreement, the implementation of certain employer policies may unintentionally (or otherwise) impact adversely upon the exercise of these federally protected rights.
This topic will educate nonunion employers as to their obligations to their employees, what they can and cannot prohibit, how to be aware of when union organizers are making an effort to bring a union in and how to deal with that contingency. We will also cover the new requirement to post employee rights under the NLRA.
As this topic will highlight, labor-management relations issues are not solely for the employer who already has a union in the house.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to describe protected concerted activities.
- You will be able to identify employer policies implicating the NLRA.
- You will be able to review the Weingarten Right in the Nonunion setting.
- You will be able to identify the economic pressures in a nonunion environment.
This live webinar covers these hot issues
Protected Concerted Activities Defined
- Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act
- Concerted Activity Defined
- Activities for Other Mutual Aid or Protection
Protected Concerted Activity in the Nonunion Workplace
- Employee Complaints and Protests
Employer Policies Implicating the NLRA
- No Solicitation Rules
- No Access Rules
- Hiring Policies
- Salting
- Union Affiliation Questions and Issues
- Fraternization Policies
- Confidentiality Policies
- No Complaints to Customers Policies
Economic Pressure in a Nonunion Environment
- Work Stoppages and Strikes in a Nonunion Setting
Organizing 101
- Signs of Organizing
- Employer Response
- Overview of NLRB Secret Ballot Election Procedures and Issues
The Weingarten Right in the Nonunion Setting
- Overview of the Right to Employee Representation
- Application of Principles to a Nonunion Setting
New Posting Requirements
NLRA and the Social Networking Issue
Overview of Recent NLRB Cases
Credit Information (Sponsored by Lorman Education Services)
- CLE
- SHRM
- HR Certification Institute
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Only registered attendee will receive continuing education credit.
Faculty
Mark E. Tabakman, Esq., Fox Rothschild LLP
- Labor & Employment Partner in the Princeton office of Fox Rothschild LLP
- Practice emphasizes all aspects of wage and hour law, including the representation of more than 200 clients before the United States and many state Departments of Labor on misclassification (i.e., white collar exemptions, independent contractor), working time, construction industry/Davis Bacon/prevailing wage cases and other issues
- Frequent guest speaker on wage-hour and employment law issues and has appeared on local and national television programs commenting on these matters. He wrote a weekly column on labor and employment issues titled "Making the Law Work"
- Publishes the Wage & Hour — Developments & Highlights blog (https://wagehourlaw.foxrothschild.com/) to provide the latest information and his observations on new developments in wage-hour law, such as class actions, exemption/misclassification and working time issues
- Included in the list of New Jersey "Super Lawyers" in the field of Labor & Employment (2013 to 2016), and in “Super Lawyers Business Edition” in the area of Employment and Labor Law (2013)
- J.D. degree, Rutgers University School of Law; B.S. degree, Cornell University
- Can be contacted at 973-994-7554, mtabakman@foxrothschild.com or on Twitter® @njwagelaw