The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) effort to require a new poster explaining employee rights is creating much concern — not to mention legal action — but a key point employers should understand is the rule’s impact on nonunion employers, according to employment law attorney Al Vreeland, who led a session at the October Advanced Employment Issues Symposium (AEIS) in Nashville, Tennessee.
Vreeland, a founding member and managing shareholder of Lehr Middlebrooks & Vreeland, P.C., in Birmingham, Alabama, says the new rule is “a big deal not only for union employers but also for nonunion employers” because all employees, unionized or not, have a right to engage in concerted activity, what Vreeland calls employees “getting together to gripe about something in the workplace.”
Watch Vreeland’s interview at AEIS
Al Vreeland is a founding member and managing shareholder of Lehr Middlebrooks & Vreeland, P.C., in Birmingham, Alabama. He will be speaking on the changes at the NLRB at the Advanced Employment Issues Symposium (AEIS) in Las Vegas in November 2011. He is also editor of the Alabama Employment Law Letter.
I’ve run a small business for over 20 years. Employees don’t gripe unless the company gives them something to gripe about! this is just more Wall Street BS!
I’m with Ben on this. Much ado about nothing.