Tampa Bay Employment Law

– City of Ontario, California v. Quon. This case involved  a police officer’s text messages being reviewed by the City.  The  Court sidestepped the question whether public employees have an expectation of privacy, but in any event unanimously found that the city’s search of a worker’s text messages at issue in the case was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.
– New Process Steel v. National Labor Relations Board.  The NLRB due to political battles only had 2 members for a very long time.  The NLRB should have 5 members.  A majority of the Court held that a two-member NLRB does not have the legal authority to do the business of the board.  This decision may have a major impact upon the Board, as there were over 500 decisions issued during the more than 2 years that the Board functioned with only 2 members.