Speaker, Gibbons Employment & Labor Law Webinar Series, "Back to the Future: How the Current National Labor Relations Board Has Restored Balance in Labor-Management Relations (And How It May Continue to Do so Moving Forward)"

Under the Obama administration, the NLRB issued several groundbreaking decisions that tilted the labor-management playing field in favor of organized labor. The current NLRB has not hesitated to revert to well-established positions on a variety of key issues to better level the playing field. This discussion will address the Board’s current position on several of these issues, which impact both union and non-union employers, and potential future challenges, including:

• Whether your workplace policies are lawful
• Whether you can require employees to keep workplace investigations confidential
• Whether you can limit your employees’ use of your computer systems to business purposes only
• Whether you are a joint employer
• Whether an individual is an employee or independent contractor
• What constitutes protected concerted activity
• What rules apply to union elections
• What changes there have been to the collective-bargaining process