Molly Eastman Quoted in Law360
"NLRB Wrong On Union Ruling, Grocery Chain Tells DC Circ."

Seyfarth Shaw Labor & Employment partner Molly Eastman was quoted in Law360 on February 16. The article discusses a recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in which it found that grocer Fresh & Easy was in violation of the National Labor Relations Act when it "unlawfully interfered with union activities, and imposed too punitive a remedy."

Molly said that the grocer, which had a no-distribution rule forbidding employees from distributing literature on company premises, including those dealing with union activities, "cured any technical violation by revising the policy and communicating the change to its employees."

She also pointed out that what the NLRB deemed as an illegal interrogation was not protected activity, as it was about the union's harassment of employees, and the board's order to post a notice at all of the grocer's Las Vegas stores is "punitive and impermissible," when it would have been appropriate to do so at the store where those in question worked.