EYM King of Michigan, LLC is a franchisor of Burger Kings. EYM maintained a neutral policy against loitering and soliciting by employees anywhere on company premises. The company relied on the policy to warn and discipline several workers who met in the restaurant parking lot to discuss their wages and protest. The National Labor Relations Board…

Anyone who reads my Roetzel Recap: Labor Relations or has listened to me give one of dozens of speeches on how the National Labor Relations Act applies to non-union companies and how the National Labor Relations Board is targeting non-union companies will already know this. But, until no company’s handbook violates the Act, it is…

No Solicitation / No Distribution Policies are enacted by companies to stop union organizers from soliciting employees to join or form a union – or distribute similar messages – during working time and in working areas. These policies must prohibit all types of solicitation and distribution, though, not just union organizing. The famous example of…