(A just-published Department of Labor rule) Employers Must Post Workers’ Rights Info

[Omaha Steve]

Employers Must Post Workers’ Rights Info

by Mike Hall, May 21, 2010

A just-published Department of Labor rule ensures that workers employed by contractors and subcontractors to the federal government will now know their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

The new rule requires employers to post notices–where workers can see them–that list their rights, including the right to join unions. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says the new rule will “provide workers with a clear understanding of their rights.”

Trumka says the action by the Obama administration’s Labor Department helps reverse the Bush era approach to workers

which put corporate interests before workers’ rights. Making sure that workers know their rights on the job will reduce harassment, intimidation and fear in the workplace. Informing workers of their rights will improve employee morale and contribute to positive labor-management relations.

The notice employers must post lists employees’ rights under the NLRA to form, join and assist a union and to bargain collectively with their employer; provides examples of unlawful employer and union conduct that interferes with those rights; and indicates how employees can contact the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that enforces those rights, with questions or complaints.

For more on your rights in the workplace, click here: http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/workersrights/index.cfm