2nd Floor – Eastman Credit Union Building
2021 Meadowview Lane
Kingsport, TN  37660

 

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 88
Kingsport, TN  37662-0088

 

Phone Number

(423) 723-0400 (main)

 

Hours of Operation

Monday-Friday

8:00am-5:00pm

(423) 723-0400

On August 2, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) published its long-anticipated decision in Stericycle on how employer rules would be interpreted.[1] This ruling overruled the prior standard, Boeing,[2] and returned to a version of the rule announced in Luther Heritage Village-Livonia.[3] While the Boeing decision was more permissive of broad employer rules, the Stericycle decision creates a burden-shifting test that will force employers to be more cautious in their rulemaking. Under Stericycle, it must first be shown that “a challenged rule has a reasonable tendency to chill employees from exercising their Section 7 rights.”[4] The Board