Discussing Wages with Fellow Employees is Inherently Concerted Activity: NLRB | Practical Law
In Alternative Energy Applications Inc., the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held that an employer violated Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA by telling an employee not to discuss wages, threatening to discharge him if he did and unlawfully terminating him because it believed that he had discussed his wages with other employees. The NLRB deemed the employee's alleged individual gripes to other employees, which were not to initiate or support group action, "inherently concerted" because they concerned wages.