Whole Foods’ No Cell Phone Recording Policy: The Devil is in the Details

Fellow Ohio attorney Jon Hyman, author of “Ohio Employer’s Law Blog” recently dove deep into the footnotes of the Whole Foods decision and resurfaced with an excellent, albeit frightening, analysis of the Board’s thought process. Footnotes 7 and 9 may provide a peek into the Board’s future desire to, as Jon says, “stretch the definition…
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NLRB’s Ruling that Whole Foods’ No Cell Phone Recording Policy May Be Short Lived

A few weeks ago, the NLRB ruled that non-union Whole Foods’ workplace policy that prohibits employees from recording conversations or taking pictures with their phones was unlawful. The Board thought this policy stifled open conversation. Ironically, Whole Foods said the policy was, in fact, to encourage open conversation because people may be less frank if…
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