NLRB Memorandum Finds Walmart's Social Media Policy Did Not Infringe Protected Employee Communications

摘要

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region 11 submitted the " Walmart" case [Case ll-CA-067171 (05/30/2012)] for advice from the NLRB's Office of the General Counsel; the question involved whether Walmart's social media policy was unlawfully overbroad, and whether Walmart violated § 8(a)(l) by discharging its employee because of the comments he had posted on his Face-book page. The General Counsel's Advice Memorandum began by explaining that an employer violates § 8(a)(l) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) through the maintenance of a work rule if that rule would "reasonably tend to chill employees in the exercise of their Section 7 rights."