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Employees can't use employer's email

January 23, 2020 by Ross Runkel in Collective bargaining

[Video] Overruling a 2014 decision, the NLRB is now holding that employees do not have a statutory right to use their employer’s email and other information-technology resources to engage in non-work-related communications.

In other words, employees have no right to use the employer’s email for purposes of union organizing.

Caesars Entertainment, 368 NLRB No. 143 (12/17/2019) [PDF]. Overruling Purple Communications, Inc., 361 NLRB 1050 (2014).