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General Counsel Lafe Solomon, in a May 30 memo, examined social media policies at seven employers, including General Motors and Target Brands, and found six of the polices overly broad.
Solomon, in his third social-media memo since August, found that the six policies have provisions that violate Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, which allows employees to join labor unions and to discuss working conditions with each other. Solomon's opinions say employers cannot prohibit employees from discussing working conditions, including salary, with coworkers on social media.
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Although Section 7 addresses labor unions in part, the law applies to all U.S. employers, not just unionized ones. The series of memos appear to serve notice to U.S. companies that the Section 7 rules exist, said Marcia Goodman, a partner specializing in employment law with the Mayer Brown law firm in Chicago.
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Lionessa
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Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)are fruitless, stupid, and probably illegal, I also think that employees of any company should be circumspect in what they say in a public forum of any kind that can be connected with them.
I sometimes think ill of the outfit that employs me, and I will state my opinion verbally to people, but I have never posted anything on line that I can think of, especially nothing that names who I get my paycheck from.
When I discuss work on social media at all, which is rarely, I only post positive things. The very, very few times I have stated anything other than that have been to refer to a situation or individual very obliquely calling such as "interesting" (such as "gosh, that was an "interesting" day, meaning we were woefully understaffed for the level of business due to some screw up and only those who were there will really understand). I think companies do these things at their own peril, but I am not going to "bite the hand" so to speak. One can also post news media stories that easily show corporate hypocrisy without comment and allow folks to draw their own conclusions.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Workers Win Battle Over Employer Crackdowns on Social Media
A grocery store chain threatened to fire workers for talking about their jobs on Facebook and Twitter--but the workers took their fight to the NLRB, and won.
Two labor unions representing workers at supermarket chains are reporting success in efforts to protect their members from employers who want to impose restrictive rules on the use of social media outside the workplace.
Leaders of the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) union and the Teamsters have successfully backed down a large multinational conglomerate that attempted to impose such restrictions on more than 100,000 workers across the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions, union officials said. Complaints to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have resulted in the New York-based unit of the company withdrawing the disputed policy, and a settlement of similar complaints is imminent in the Baltimore area, they said.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... after hearing about this.
