NLRB Ruling Adopts New Standard Considering Lawfulness of Employee Handbook Provisions
On August 2, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced its decision in Stericycle. This decision is a new way of determining the lawfulness of workplace policies maintained by private-sector employers, regardless of whether they are unionized. In the future, the NLRB will assess if a workplace policy could conceivably have a “chilling effect”…