NLRB Ruling for Bakery Worker Partially Nixed by 8th Cir. (1)

The National Labor Relations Board didn’t support its finding that Southern Bakeries LLC violated a worker’s rights by disciplining her for “grazing” from the bread production line and later firing her for trying to antagonize a colleague, the Eighth Circuit ruled Sept. 11.

The commercial bakery fired Lorraine Mark Briggs in 2016 for bumping into a co-worker on purpose, and based on a final written warning she’d received the previous year for eating a piece of apple bread as it came down the line. An agency judge and the Eighth Circuit held in 2017 that the final warning was unlawful ...