NLRB Postpones Effective Date of Employee Rights Notice Posting Rule

The National Labor Relations Board recently agreed to postpone the effective date of its Employee Rights Notice Posting Rule. Under the rule, most private sector employers will be required to post an 11-by-17-inch notice about their employees' right to join a union. The new implementation date is now April 30, 2012.

The rule was previously scheduled to go into effect on November 14, 2011, and that date was postponed. It was later to go into effect January 31, 2012, and that date was postponed.

The most recent postponement to April 30, 2012, was done by the NLRB at the request of a federal court in Washington, DC, that is hearing a legal challenge regarding the rule.

Under the rule, employers would be required to post a notice informing employees of their right to organize a union, bargain collectively through representatives of the employees' own choosing, and strike and picket, depending on the purposes.

The notice will need to be posted in conspicuous places. A copy of the rule can be obtained from the NLRB website at www.nlrb.gov/poster.

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Martin J. Boetcher is an attorney in Youngstown, Ohio. His practice areas include employment law, civil litigation, workers’ compensation law and insurance law.