NLRB General Counsel Issues Post-Boeing Guidance Memorandum On Employer Handbook Rules

On June 6, 2018, National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) General Counsel Peter B. Robb issued a memorandum (“GC 18-04”) to NLRB Regional Directors providing guidance on how to analyze employee handbook rules in the wake of the Board’s recent decision in The Boeing Co., 365 NLRB No. 154 (2017).  This guidance provides employers with a helpful road map for navigating the Board’s new three-category—and more employer-friendly—approach to evaluating the lawfulness of employer handbook rules by balancing the employer’s interests against an employee’s right to engage in protected, concerted activity under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). In the Boeing decision, released in December 2017, the Board overruled years of precedent to hold that it would now assess employer handbook rules by balancing the interests of the employer against the relative burden on NLRA rights.  In…

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