Labor Rights And Politics: What Employers Should Know

Hugh Murray, chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group, spoke with Law360 on employers regulating political advocacy in the workplace. While case law provides some protections for workers’ political advocacy, Murray said those protections depend on there being “a nexus to either this workplace, or someone else’s workplace, or working conditions generally.” He said further that “while the line between protected and unprotected activity is subject to interpretation, the National Labor Relations Board is unlikely to go so far as to say that the National Labor Relations Act covers straight politics.”