Deja review: recent NLRB decisions present a new legal impetus for employers to revisit their supervisory classification of workers.(Employment Law)(National Labor Relations Board)

From: HRMagazine | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

The National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) recent Kentucky River decisions sparked an intense reaction from labor and management as both sides focused immediately on how the rulings affected workers' rights to join a union.

Potentially lost in the shuffle was a secondary but very important fact: The decisions give employers strong incentive to audit their processes for determining which workers they classify as supervisors.

Such a re-examination should spark deja vu for employers, who were similarly encouraged to re-examine classification of workers when the Fair Labor ...

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