Nov. 29, 2024
From precedent to policy: NLRB's new captive audience meeting ban
NLRB's Amazon decision ends 75 years of precedent while raising new questions about workplace communications.
Sehreen Ladak
Associate, Proskauer Rose LLP
Sehreen Ladak is an associate attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP.
Ariel Brotman
Associate, Proskauer Rose LLP
Ariel Brotman is an associate attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP.
Employers can no longer require employees to attend meetings at which the employer expresses its views on unionization thanks to the National Labor Relations Board's ("NLRB") decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, 373 NLRB 136 (November 13, 2024). Under the ruling, merely holding a mandatory meeting--apart from whether the content is lawful--violates Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"). These meetings, derogatorily referred to as "captive audience meetings," h...
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