Board Rules Captive-Audience Meetings Unlawful
6 days ago · Overruling Babcock & Wilcox Co., 77 NLRB 577 (1948), the Board explained that such meetings—commonly known as captive-audience meetings—violate Section 8(a)(1) of the Act because they have a reasonable tendency to interfere with and coerce employees in the exercise of their Section 7 rights. However, the Board made clear that an employer ...
NLRB Bans Mandatory ‘Captive Audience’ Meetings - SHRM
2 days ago · In 2022, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo announced in a memo that she would ask the board to find mandatory captive audience meetings unlawful. Legal experts expect Trump to immediately fire ...
Clear the Calendar: NLRB Restricts Captive Audience Meetings
1 day ago · Wilcox Co., 77 NLRB 577 (1948), that employers are permitted under the National Labor Relations Act to hold captive audience meetings during work hours to express their views on labor organizations.
NLRB Prohibits Employers’ Use of Captive Audience Meetings in …
1 day ago · On Wednesday, November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a decision prohibiting captive audience meetings — mandatory meetings held during work hours to explain ...
After 76 Years, the NLRB Declares Captive-Audience Meetings …
22 hours ago · Applying the 1947 amendments to the NLRA, the NLRB held that captive-audience meetings were lawful in a 1948 case called Babcock & Wilcox Co., which was in effect for 76 years, until yesterday.
Captive audience meetings are unlawful, NLRB says | Legal Dive
6 days ago · The decision overturns Babcock and Wilcox Co., a 76-year-old precedent that allowed for such meetings. Captive audience meetings violate Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA, the Board found, “because they have a reasonable tendency to interfere with and coerce employees in the exercise of their Section 7 rights.”
NLRB Bans 'Captive Audience' Meetings, Yanking Away Platform …
5 days ago · News NLRB Bans 'Captive Audience' Meetings, Yanking Away Platform Employers Used to Combat Unionizing The decision, which drew a dissent from the sole Republican on the board, upends 76 years of ...
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo Issues Memo on Captive Audience ...
Apr 7, 2022 · Forcing employees to attend captive audience meetings under threat of discipline discourages employees from exercising their right to refrain from listening to this speech and is therefore inconsistent with the NLRA.
Anti-Union Captive Audience Meetings Outlawed by Labor …
6 days ago · Mandatory “captive audience” meetings in which companies argue against unionization are illegal, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a case involving Amazon.com Inc., prohibiting one of employers’ most potent weapons against labor organizing campaigns.. Requiring workers to attend anti-union gatherings violates federal labor law protections that allow workers to freely choose ...
National Labor Relations Board rules ‘captive audience’ meetings ...
6 days ago · According to an analysis from the Washington D.C.-based think tank Economic Policy Institute, up to 89% of NLRB-supervised union campaigns in the U.S. between 1999 and 2003 featured captive audience meetings.
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