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n November 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) upended 76 years of precedent, holding in Amazon.com Services LLC, 373 NLRB No. 136, that “captive-audience” meetings are per se unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act
RA). Captive-audience meetings are mandatory meetings during regular, paid working time where an employer shares its views regarding unionization with employees. Employers have lawfully used captive-audience meetings in response to union organizing campaigns since at least the 1940s. But now the NLRB has determined that the mere act of an employer requiring an employee to attend a paid meeting where it expresses its views