If you've been paying attention to legal compliance issues, you know that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been a thorn in the side of many, many employers in the past few years.  The following case is illustrative: Nick Aguirre was a car salesman in Arizona.  He met with two managers and the dealership's [...]

A recent NLRB case stretched the limits of my credulity (and I've been pretty stretched out by the Board’s rulings the past couple of years). The case involves a Hooters franchise in California. An employee (we’ll call her Employee A) got in a verbal fight with another employee.  Employee A hurled obscenities and got so [...]