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Does Your Employee Confidentiality Policy Violate The NLRA?

Published on Mon Aug 03, 2015

Even if your employee’s conduct violates HIPAA, that doesn’t mean terminating that employee won’t violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). In Rocky Mountain Eye Center, P.C. vs. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 400, an administrative law judge (ALJ) decided that despite the employer’s “unquestionably legitimate” HIPAA compliance concerns, the employer “seized upon” those concerns to prevent union activity. [...]
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