The new age of the smartphone has resurrected the Pokémon craze from the 1990s in a completely new version of the once popular handheld Gameboy Nintendo game. With the help of the smartphone’s GPS, Pokémon Go requires individuals to physically enter the real world to chase Pokémon located on the phone’s map. The game randomly
Does your company provide email access to its employees? Are there restrictions on how and when email may be used? These issues are addressed in the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) December 11, 2014 decision in Purple Communications, Inc., which affects both non-union and union employers. In Purple Communications, the NLRB reversed its
The Office of the General Counsel for the NLRB has recently updated its memo summarizing recent social media decisions. The memo provides a reference for employers regarding the limitations on disciplining or terminating employees based on comments they make on FaceBook and other social media sites.
The first case summary in the memo is telling.
Like most every other business and agency today, the NLRB is staying on top of social media. Today, the Board’s acting general counsel issued a summary memo describing recent Board cases dealing with employee postings on Facebook and Twitter, as well as employers’ social media policies. A copy of the summary is attached here.