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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) recently held that Tesla Inc. and CEO Elon Musk violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by infringing on employees’ protected rights through a tweet, and through an overly-broad confidentiality agreement employees were required to sign.

Musk’s tweet, posted on May 20, 2018 read:

“Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union.… Continue Reading

In the waning days of the Trump administration, the NLRB issued a decision in Medic Ambulance Services, Inc., which upheld an employer’s handbook rules challenged as infringing on protected concerted activity under the National Labor Relations Act. In a rare move by the Trump Labor Board, however, the Board also found that certain parts of the handbook did violate the NLRA. … Continue Reading