ABC Taxes, Tips & Tools

The National Labor Rela­tions Board (NLRB) announced that most pri­vate employ­ers may soon have to dis­play a poster in their work places that informs employ­ees of their right to form and/or join a union.  At the moment it is a pro­posed rul­ing, which is under­go­ing a 60-day com­ment period. 

IF the pro­posed rul­ing goes into effect after the com­ment period, fail­ure to dis­play the poster would be treated as an “unfair labor prac­tice.”  In gen­eral, it would be treated as evi­dence of unfair labor prac­tices if a case is ini­ti­ated against an employer.  It does not gen­er­ate enforce­ment action on its own.  The poster would be avail­able or it could be down­loaded for free from the NLRB. If a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of employ­ees do not speak Eng­lish the employer would be required to dis­play a poster in their lan­guage. If an employer nor­mally elec­tron­i­cally con­veys posters, and elec­tronic ver­sion would be required in addi­tion to the phys­i­cal one in the workplace. 

The National Labor Rela­tions Act applies to most pri­vate employ­ers as the thresh­hold num­ber of employ­ees is 1.  The Act does not apply to work­ers who are cov­ered by the Rail­way Labor Act, agri­cul­tural employ­ees, domes­tic employ­ees, super­vi­sors, fed­eral, state or local gov­ern­ment work­ers, inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors and some close rel­a­tives of indi­vid­ual employers.

If you would like to read more about poster require­ments, espe­cially as they relate to Ari­zona employ­ers, please check out http://artandbusinessconsulting.com/arizona-employer-requirements.htm#AZ_Employer_Information. The infor­ma­tion pre­sented on this page is not all inclu­sive, nor does it pro­vide, nor is it intended to pro­vide com­plete or full descrip­tion, dis­cus­sion, or analy­sis of any law, topic, or issue.  ABC strongly advises busi­nesses to com­ply with all employ­ment laws that they are sub­ject to, and con­sult with an employ­ment lawyer or other employ­ment law spe­cial­ist when nec­es­sary — ABC is not engage to prac­tice law, nor is ABC an HR Specialist. 

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