The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has released the official version of its 11-by-17-inch notice displaying a list of select employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) that will be required all employers to post in their workplaces. The rule was originally scheduled to go into effect November 14, but was postponed until January 31, 2012.
The posting requirement has been postponed again to April 30, 2012.

These postponements have been in response, an ABC-led coalition, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW), in conjunction with the National Association of Manufacturers which on Sept. 26 filed a lawsuit challenging the final rule in court. The lawsuit asserts that the NLRB does not have authority under the NLRA to issue the rule.

The official NLRB notice can be downloaded for free at http://www.nlrb.gov/poster.

In addition to the lawsuit, ABC has produced an 11-by-17-inch supplemental notice designed exclusively for nonunion contractors outlining additional employee rights granted under the NLRA which is the choice to not belong to a union.  Supplemental notices are permitted under the final rule only as long as such notices do not contain “threat[s] of reprisal or force or promise[s] of benefits.” Regardless of the employers’ decision to display a supplemental notice, the NLRB notice must still be posted. ABC's sample companion notice can be accessed by clicking/Files/ABC_NLRA Rights_Supplemental Poster_FINAL.pdf.

The rule now is scheduled to go into effect April 30.  In addition to a physical posting, the notice will have to be posted electronically (on the Internet or company intranet) if the employer customarily posts official notices in that manner.