NLRB Delivers Ban on Captive-Audience Meetings in Amazon Case

Summary

Throwing out 75 Years of precedent in a single decision, on November 13, 2024, in Amazon.com Services LLC, the National Labor Relations Board (the ''Board'') the Board overruled the seminal case of Babcock & Wilcox Co., 77 NLRB 577 (1948) and held that, going forward, employers violate the National Labor Relations Act (the ''Act'') if they require employees ''to attend a meeting at which the employer expresses its views on unionization,'' commonly known as ''captive-audience meetings.''