Jon Hyman, a partner in the labor and employment group at Ohio-based Kohrman Jackson & Krantz PLL, said the institute’s policy violated Section 7 of the act, which addresses “protected concerted activity” of employees. The judge concluded that the policy violated the National Labor Relations Act. It also prohibited “making negative or disparaging comments or criticisms about anyone creating, and sharing or repeating, a rumor about another person and discussing work issues or terms and conditions of employment with other employees.”
#SECOND LIFE GOSSIP PROFESSIONAL#
The school had a restrictive no-gossip policy that banned talking about someone’s personal or professional life when the person or his or her manager wasn’t present. The institute had fired Joslyn Henderson because she discussed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint she had filed alleging sexual harassment and retaliation by her manager.
In a December 2013 ruling, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge Donna Dawson struck down what she called an “overly broad” no-gossip policy at Laurus Technical Institute in the Greater Atlanta area. When does gossip cross the line from innocuous, garden-variety conversation to something so potentially hurtful, harmful or liable that companies are within their rights to forbid it? Is it gossip to speculate whether Carol in accounting is expecting her second child? Is it gossip to spread the news that Ted and Rachel are getting married before Ted and Rachel have announced so publicly?
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