Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Speaker: Ian Leitheiser
Title: "World Wide Water Cooler: The Expanding Scope of Protected Concerted
Activity under the National Labor Relations Act in the Social Media Era."

Recent efforts by the National Labor Relations Board have effectively stretched the definition of protected concerted activity to include some content shared via social media. Content shared between employees via social media outside of work can nevertheless be protected activity under the NLRA, making the line between work and personal spheres ever harder to distinguish.

Ian Leitheiser is a Deputy City Attorney with the City of Portland's Office of the City Attorney. He practices in the office's Labor and Employment Group, handling workers' compensation and other employment-related matters.