By: Otto S. Shill, III For employers in western states, labor disputes may seem like remote events that happen between unions and companies in industrial cities east of the Mississippi River. After all, Arizona is an “at will employment” and “right to work” state, isn’t it? But here in Arizona…
On March 18, 2015, NLRB General Counsel Richard F. Griffin, Jr. issued a report and Memorandum offering “guidance” on various provisions of employer handbooks in his hope that employers review their handbooks and rules to ensure they are lawful.
On December 10, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held that if an employer makes its e-mail available to its employees for use in connection with their job, the employer must permit employees to use the e-mails system “for statutorily protected communications.”
Jennings, Strouss & Salmon labor and employment attorney John J. Egbert is featured in a Phoenix Business Journal article entitled, “What Steve Nash’s divorce can teach businesses, workers about social media.” The article discusses the precedents Steve Nash’s divorce case may have set in terms of how social media is…
