Labor Board Paves Way for Employers to Ward Off Union Emails

Employers can likely bar their employees from sending union-related emails without unlawfully discriminating against unions as a result of a pair of recent National Labor Relations Board rulings, management attorneys said.

The NLRB ruled last month that workers don’t have a statutory right to use employers’ email systems and other digital resources for organizing purposes. Although that decision didn’t spell out a legal test for determining whether restrictions are unlawfully biased, the board’s earlier ruling on site access strongly suggests companies have wide latitude to single out communications related to organizing in the workplace, multiple lawyers said.

Restrictions on using ...