Union Organizing: Employers Must Post New Notice of Employee Rights

The 11 by 17 inch poster Notice will be provided at no charge by regional NLRB offices or can be downloaded from the Board website.

Notices must be posted on November 14, 2011, calculated as 75 days after the new Rule is published in the Federal Register on August 25.

The Notice must be posted in English and in other languages where at least 20% of the employees are not proficient in English. Employers who use an intranet or an internet site to post employee handbooks and personnel rules must also post the notice on these sites.

Even employers who are non-union must post the Notice if they are subject to the National Labor Relations Act.

The Notice is similar to a notice of employee rights already required by the Department of Labor of federal contractors. A federal contractor currently posting the DOL Notice will not need to also post the new NLRB Notice in the workplace.

If you have questions about obtaining the Notice poster, where to place it, or how to handle employee questions about their union organizing rights as explained in the poster; now is the time to contact your employment counsel to discuss strategies for identifying and addressing employee issues and adopting pro-active measures to help your workplace remain union free.