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How a Recent National Labor Relations Board Ruling Affects Workplace Rules, Employee Handbooks

HRWatchdog

and Teamsters Local 628, and how it affects California employers’ workplace rules and handbooks. This affects work policies that many employers already have in their handbooks, such as personal conduct policies, conflict of interest policies, etc., Stericycle, Inc. In 2014, Teamsters Local 628 challenged Stericycle, Inc.’s

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NLRB: Social Media Policy Can’t Require Employees to Use Real Names

Zenefits

The NLRB’s memo provides insight into the types of social media work rules that are overbroad under federal law following the 2017 ruling in The Boeing Company. But, several others passed muster. A prohibition on the use of the company’s logo. A prohibition on CVS-branded social media accounts unless approved in advance.

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Special from SHRM 2017: Seven Steps to Creating Bulletproof Documentation

HR Daily Advisor

Get expectations from performance standards, job description, goals, mission statement and code of conduct, handbook, and policies and procedures such as ethics policy or attendance policy. When documenting this: Describe the conduct, not the individual. Any additional training. Poor documentation: Show up on time.

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How many of you would risk the retaliation claim here? (I would)

The Employer Handbook

In support, the company offered these facts: Plaintiffs were subject to the company’s employee handbook, which included a code of conduct that prohibited “workplace violence.” One of your employees just complained about discrimination in the workplace. Or maybe s/he just participated in an HR investigation.