Unfair Labor Practice to Ban “Badmouthing” of Bosses
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
A package delivery service was in the midst of a Teamsters organizing campaign when the company’s general manager told an employee involved in the organizing drive that “it had come to his attention that he had been “badmouthing” managers in the parking lot, and that such conduct was unprofessional, and that if this conduct continued,…
Read More Cannot Fire Employees for Foul Language if Cursing is Part of the Corporate Culture
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board ordered reinstatement of a nurse who was fired for making vulgar sexual comments and jokes. Specifically, the Respondent hospital showed that it terminated the nurse after she “engaged in grossly offensive, profane, and intimidating workplace behavior that provoked an unprecedented number of her co-workers to complain of a hostile work…
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