On December 24, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board in Whole Foods Market, Inc. addressed internal policies prohibiting employees from using phones, digital cameras, or any other audio-visual equpiment to record company meetings and workplace conversations without management’s explicit permission. The Board found, in a two to one decision, that employees could reasonably construe these polices as prohibiting Section 7 activity and that the policies therefore violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act.
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