In a 3-2 split decision along party lines, the National Labor Relations Board has held that employees are presumptively permitted to use their employer’s email systems during non-work time for Section 7 activities if employers give employees access to their email systems. The Board’s decision in Purple Communications overrules the 2007 decision in Register Guard “to the extent it holds that employees can have no statutory right to use their employer’s email systems for Section 7 purposes.”
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