NLRB Official: Employee’s Speech About COVID-19 Concerns Not Protected

(March 1, 2021, 1:55 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An employee’s speech regarding concerns about a lack of personal protective equipment and the COVID-19 status of another employee was speech on the employee’s own behalf and not others, the National Labor Relations Board acting deputy general counsel wrote in a Feb. 24 letter denying the employees’ appeal from the acting regional director’s refusal to issue a complaint....