Trepanier MacGillis Battina P.A. 8000 Flour Exchange Building 310 Fourth Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55415 612.455.0500
Trepanier MacGillis Battina P.A. 8000 Flour Exchange Building 310 Fourth Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55415 612.455.0500

NLRB Upholds Employee Termination Due to Mocking Facebook Posts

Recently, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued its first published decision upholding the termination of an employee based on unprotected Facebook postings. See Knauz Motors, Inc., 358 N.L.R.B. 164 (2012). The NLRB held that an employee’s mocking postings on Facebook concerning an accident that occurred on a car dealership lot were not protected under […]