'Sick Day' Signage Not Protected Activity, 8th Circ. Says

By Vin Gurrieri (July 3, 2017, 6:13 PM EDT) -- The Eighth Circuit has ruled that employees of a Jimmy John's franchisee in Minnesota can be fired or disciplined for placing posters near restaurants questioning food safety as part of their campaign to obtain paid sick leave, saying the workers' actions exhibited a disloyalty toward their employer that caused them to lose the protection of the National Labor Relations Act....

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