House Committee Holds Hearing on Ambush Election Rule

Employee privacy and employer due process concerns were the focal point of Wednesday’s House Committee hearing on the National Labor Relations Board’s proposed expedited election rule.  Last month, the Board re-issued an expansive proposal that would dramatically alter how union elections are conducted. 

Opening the hearing, House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) said the event “evokes a sense of déjà vu,” as the Board’s reintroduced proposal is substantively similar to that introduced in June 2011.  Kline said the “deeply misguided” rule stifles an employer’s free speech, jeopardizes employee privacy, and gives an employer only seven days to find legal counsel, appear before a regional officer for a pre-election hearing, and identify every possible legal concern or forever forfeit the right to raise them at a later date.  According to Kline, “it’s been almost three years . . . and the rule is just as bad now as it was then.” Continue reading this entry at Littler's Workplace Policy Update.

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