New Rules for Employee E-Mail Use? Labor Board Wants Input (2)

Workers may soon no longer have the right to use company email systems to discuss unionization.

The National Labor Relations Board today called for public input on whether to overturn a 2014 decision forcing businesses to allow workers to use company email for organizing purposes. Advocates for unions and businesses tell Bloomberg Law they expect the Republican-majority board to revert to an earlier policy generally allowing employers to ban workers from using company email for communications not directly related to their job duties.

“This is not a surprise,” Steven Swirsky, an Epstein Becker Green attorney who represents businesses in labor-management ...