NLRB Poster Delayed until April

The National Labor Relations Board pushed the compliance deadline for businesses to post a new federal workplace poster regarding employees' union-organizing rights to April 30, 2012.

Employers recevied the three month reprieve on the regulation's effective date after a federal court held a December 19 hearing on a lawsuit that challenges whether the NLRB is authorized to impose the requirement at all. The National Restaurant Association is one of the parties to the lawsuit, as part of the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace. After hearing arguments in the case, the court strongly suggested that the NLRB delay its Jan. 31 effective date.

The poster mandate, first proposed by the NLRB in December 2012, requires all employers subject to the National Labor Relations Act to post a notice outlining employees' rights to organize and bargain collectively. The NLRB rules makes failure to post the new employee rights notice an unfair labor practice. The NLRB originally set the compliance deadline for Nov. 14, 2011 but moved it to January after widesperad complaints from the business community.

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