Compliance Stuff

  On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a d ecision prohibiting the practice of holding mandatory employee meetings to discuss the employer’s views on unionization . The decision follows through on the NLRB general counsel’s attack on so-called “captive audience meetings,” an important tool for employers to educate workers about the potential workplace implications of unionization. Quick Hits The NLRB issued a decision prohibiting employers from holding mandatory employee informational meetings to discuss their views on unionization. The decision o verrules a seventy-six-year-old Board precedent that had allowed such meetings. The NLRB outlined a “safe harbor” for employers to hold voluntary meeting s on unionization with employees. The Board held that an employer interferes with employees’ organizing rights under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it “compels employees to attend a captive-audience meeting on pain of discipl...