✦ LIBER ✦
Offering off-duty employees pay to vote in election made illegal by clinton board
✍ Scribed by Alfred T. DeMaria
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Weight
- 128 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0745-4880
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In yet another overturning of previous precedent, the Clinton NLRB has ruled that a long-standing employer practice of seeking to maximize voter turnout on election day is impermissible. For many years, employers have offered off-duty employees a financial incentive for coming in to vote. The incentive has taken various forms, including pay for actual time spent coming to and from the polling place or a standard one-hour, hour-and-ahalf, or two-hours' pay.
Because this has been such a common and, until now, permissible employer practice, the decision of the Board in changing the rules is reported in detail.