The National Labor Relations Board reminded companies this week that it won’t let them off the hook for policies it believes unfairly limit workers’ use of company computer and email systems.

In an administrative law judge ruling against Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino, a Caesar’s Entertainment Corp. property in Las Vegas, the NLRB slammed the company’s overly broad computer usage policy. The ruling reinforces the board’s landmark 2014 decision in Purple Communications, which greatly expanded employees’ rights to use employer-owned email systems under the National Labor Relations Act.

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