What every company needs to know about employee use of social media: The NLRB and Social Media

What every company needs to know about employee use of social media: The NLRB and Social Media
 
                 Event Description
                 True or False: The NLRB has jurisdiction only over unionized companies.
                 False: The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency that protects the
                 rights of private sector employees to join together, with or without a union, to improve their
                 wages and working conditions.
 
                 In 2013 and 2014, the NLRB issued a record number of rulings on protected concerted activity
                 and coercive activity involving social media. Our speaker, Ms. Hardy-Mahoney, Regional
                 Attorney, Oakland Region NLRB, will discuss these cases and what you need to know about
                 employee activity on social media.
 
                 Protected Activity
                 Which of these scenarios describe a “concerted protected activity”?
 
·          A Knauz BMW car salesman posted pictures of an accident at a neighboring Land Rover
     dealership, also owned by the Knauz group. A sales representative allowed a customer's
     13-year-old son to sit in the driver's seat of a vehicle. The teen drove the vehicle down a
     small embankment into a pond.
 
·          Earlier the same employee, posted pictures and sarcastic comments on Facebook about a
     sales event at which the luxury car dealership served hot dogs and bottled water to
     customers. He and other sales agents expressed their concern that the bland food and
     beverage sent the wrong message to the customer and would hurt their sales and
     commissions.
 
     Attend our program and find out what the NLRB and the courts have said on these and other
     similar issues.