NLRB’s Solomon Tackles Social Media Cases, Giving Wal-Mart Policy Revision a Green Light

National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Lafe E. Solomon May 30 issued a new report on employees’ social media use, describing six corporate policies that he alleged interfered with the rights of workers under the National Labor Relations Act, and one revised policy statement that he found was lawful.

In Memorandum OM 12-59, Solomon’s third report on social media in less than a year, the acting general counsel continued to take the position that overbroad company rules and policy statements violate the NLRA where employees would reasonably interpret them as limiting their exercise of rights guaranteed by the federal ...