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Breaking: 3rd NLRB memo on social highlights compliant policy from Walmart

May 30, 2012

NLRB social memo highlights Walmart policy as example of compliant policy National Labor Relations Board releases 3rd social media memo, including a sample policy from a major retailer that is in compliance with current NLRB interpretation of social media practices that intend to enforce.   You can find the memo here.  More to come later [...]

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A Cautionary Tale: Social Media, the NLRB and Free Speech

November 9, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Facebook is NOT Free Speech for Employees There is a short article on the Mashable/ Social Media page written today by Julie O’Dell.  It is entitled “For Employees, Facebook counts as free speech“.  As I write this, the article had been retweeted 1,353 times, and liked on Facebook 1,975 times.  This is [...]

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National Labor Relations Board: There’s an app for that!

June 15, 2010

Image via Wikipedia NLRB releases a site for mobile phone users Check out this use of mobile technology by the National Labor Relations Board.  Continuing their push into social technology, the NLRB has set up a website providing access to their information from your mobile phone.   Lawyers, managers and union organizers will now be able [...]

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Labor Relations Roundup: New Leadership, Old Arguments, Bailouts

May 24, 2010

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Management and Labor Unions still at odds If you work in human resources, there are a lot of things going on right now – very quietly for the most part – that are going to impact the field, especially if you deal with labor relations.   If you work in [...]

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Speaking of SHRM, HR people who use social media should be speaking at SHRM

March 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Continuing the Dialogue Yesterday I posted a bit of a mini-rant about the seminars dealing with the inherent risks of social media for employers that were presented as part of the 2010 Employment Law & Legislative Conference.   My statement was that SHRM failed to fulfill what I consider to be an obligation [...]

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Terminate Your Fear

January 13, 2010

George Clooney via last.fm This isn’t a termination. This is a reality check. It seems as if lately I am seeing an increasing number of articles, webinars, and people standing on street corners selling seminars on terminating someone from their job. George Clooney is even playing a guy who fires people for a living at a [...]

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Two pictures worth a thousand words!

November 11, 2009

Badass  MoFo Lawyers Rock Wash DC I encountered these guys while attending the ABA Labor and Employment Law section conference in Washington DC last week. I’m guessing that the firm of Morrison and Foerster LLP is tough to deal with! From Drop Box Show me the money! My son Eric sent me this one.  It [...]

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HR people are the smartest people in the room

November 8, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Be smarter than your competition Back in the stone age when I actually used to have a weekly newspaper subscription, I made it a point to read the Help Wanted ads every week.   I didn’t do this because I was engaged in a never ending job search.  I did it because it [...]

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Labor Management Issues Still Simmering

November 5, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Labor and Employment Law Conference Today was day one of the 3rd annual ABA Labor and Employment Law Annual CLE Conference.  Like most conference events, this one comes complete with keynotes speakers and various breakout sessions.   Instead of being a conference for HR practitioners, this is a mainly a conference for lawyers. [...]

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