Dish Challenging NLRB Order in Call Center Worker Firing
The National Labor Relations Board didn't apply the right legal standards and ignored its own precedent when it found Dish Network employee arbitration agreement's confidentiality provision violates the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the company said in a docket 17-60368…
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brief (in Pacer) filed Friday with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It said NLRB improperly concluded a one-time oral command to a worker to keep a workplace investigation private was an NLRA violation despite the board also concluding Dish didn't have any workplace rule to that effect. The company is appealing an April 13 NLRB decision on a complaint brought by a Colorado call center worker who was suspended for alleged workplace policy violations and subsequently fired. The NLRB didn't comment Monday.