Protections for Nonemployee Advocacy Revived by Labor Board (1)

The National Labor Relations Board restored labor law protections for employees who advocate on behalf of independent contractors and other individuals who aren’t covered by those legal safeguards.

The NLRB’s Democratic majority broadened the scope of the National Labor Relations Act’s protections in a decision released Thursday that struck down 2019’s Amnesty International ruling. That Trump-era decision had put such advocacy outside of the law’s coverage, even when the employees and the nonemployees work in the same location and for the same company.

But employees acting on behalf of nonemployees are shielded by the NLRA, as long as their advocacy ...