21 Dec 2017 NLRB Asks Ninth Circuit to Uphold Purple Communications Decision
National Labor Relations Board | Thomas PayneOn Dec. 19, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to affirm its ruling in the controversial Purple Communications decision. Purple Communications, you might remember, was a 2014 decision that overturned the Register Guard standard for employee use of company email for nonwork purposes. The standard under the 2007 Register Guard decision was that employees had no right under the National Labor Relations Act…