ExxonMobil Violates Law With Overbroad Rule, NLRB Judge Says

An ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary violated federal labor law by maintaining an overly broad rule protecting corporate information and firing a worker for violating that policy, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

ExxonMobil Global Services Co.’s rule prohibiting information disclosure went well beyond shielding confidential business information by including things that workers would associate with their pension plans and personnel data, Administrative Law Judge Michael Rosas held Friday.

The judge analyzed ExxonMobil’s “corporate assets policy” under the NLRB’s 2023 decision in Stericycle, Inc., which created a new framework for assessing employers’ rules and replaced the board’s more employer-friendly standard ...