To some employers concerned with the National Labor Relations Board’s protection of employee social media use, Oct. 28 might have felt like Opposite Day. On Tuesday, the board, which generally has proved a staunch protector of employees’ abilities to make negative comments about their employers via social media, actually decided not to extend National Labor Relations Act protection to a group of workers who badmouthed their employer on Facebook.
In the case of Richmond District Neighborhood Center, a labor board panel upheld an administrative law judge’s ruling that said two employees of a San Francisco nonprofit which provides after-school programs for local kids had stepped way over the line during a Facebook conversation, and had moved into the realm of egregious insubordination.
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