U.S. Court of Appeals Rejects T-Mobile’s Baseless Attempt to Reverse NLRB Ruling on Employee Email

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied T-Mobile’s request for review of a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that the company selectively enforced its email policy to deny its employee’s right to collective action under the National Labor Relations Act.

The Court emphatically notes that T-Mobile’s request did not actually challenge the Board’s rulings. Rather, the company argued that the Court, in a prior ruling related to the case, had left open the question of whether the employee’s email was covered by T-Mobile’s “Enterprise User Standard” policy.

“T-Mobile is wrong,” the decision reads. “We did not leave that question open. We squarely held that ‘T- Mobile’s reliance on the Enterprise User Standard fails.’”

T-Mobile has a long history of violating labor law in an attempt to undermine worker organizing at the company. We are glad that T-Mobile’s baseless attempt to delay enforcement of the NLRB's decision in this case has failed. It’s time for T-Mobile to stop stalling and start following the law.

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