Google’s NLRB Case Creates Chance for New Rules on Worker Speech

Google’s ongoing unfair labor practice case will likely provide the National Labor Relations Board an opportunity to overturn a Trump-era ruling reducing labor law protections for employees’ offensive speech or conduct during workplace activism.

The Alphabet Inc. unit is in the third week of trial before an administrative law judge in San Francisco for alleged labor law violations, including that it fired workers for protesting the company’s relationship with federal immigration enforcers and for creating software to inform co-workers of their labor rights.

A lawyer from the NLRB general counsel’s office, which is prosecuting the case against Google LLC, announced ...