With no big news items recently, I wanted to post a roundup of a couple of interesting developments that have come out this week. One recap looks at changes on the horizon in Mexican labor law that may help to mobilize the country’s workforce, and the other discussion builds on our…
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NLRB Clarifies Uses of At-Will Employment Terminology in Employee Handbooks
The NLRB recently released a memo that provides clarification about the types of at-will employment disclaimers businesses can use in their employee handbooks. Recent NLRB decisions had made employers wary of including at-will employment language that could be viewed by employees as prohibiting conduct protected under the NLRA. These memos…
Walmart Memo Shows More Concern for Labor Rights
In response to recent labor strikes that spread to 28 stores in 12 cities, Walmart issued a confidential internal memo that has been obtained by several news sources. The memo is meant for salaried employees and attempts to deal with the strikes that are the first in the company’s 50…
NLRB Backs Employer in Facebook-firing decision
Eric Meyer, a partner in the Philadelphia firm Dilworth Paxson, provides an interesting analysis of a recent NLRB decision that upheld an employer’s firing of a car salesman based on photos posted to his Facebook page. The photos involved a Land Rover that was accidently driven over a wall and…