UPS Recording Policy Allowed Under Labor Law, NLRB Judge Says

A United Parcel Service Inc. policy limiting recording devices in the workplace doesn’t violate federal labor law, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

NLRB Administrative Law Judge Jeffrey P. Gardner said in a Tuesday opinion that a UPS policy asking employees to limit the use of recording devices in the workplace isn’t so broad as to chill workers’ labor law rights.

A UPS worker and lawyers for the NLRB’s general counsel alleged the policy could be interpreted as preventing an employee from recording or documenting illegal workplace conditions. UPS said the policy was necessary to safeguard proprietary information and ...