Quicken Loans loses job deal, appeals

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Quicken Loans and other Dan Gilbert companies violated workers’ right to free speech with certain social media and privacy rules in its “Big Book” of employee regulations, National judge said Labor Relations Board.

Quicken Loans says she is appealing the judge’s decision this week, which automatically stays the judge’s orders.

Judge David Goldman, an administrative law judge in the United States, did not impose any fines on the Detroit-based mortgage lender or its sister companies, but ordered Quicken and the other companies to make 24 changes to its rules relating to employees and publish a four-page notice. inform workers that companies have made a mistake. The memo is also meant to remind employees that they have the right to organize.

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The judge noted that Quicken Loans had already canceled the Big Book in December.

The case will likely go to the full five-member NLRB board in Washington, DC, and later to federal courts if Gilbert’s companies appeal any future decisions. The other Gilbert companies involved are Fathead, Title Source, One Reverse Mortgage, In-House Realty and Rock Connections.

Quicken Loans corporate headquarters team members (employees) at One Campus Martius in Detroit on Friday, February 12, 2016.

“The NLRB and its administrative judges are setting a dangerous precedent with this ruling,” Quicken Loans said in a press release Friday. “This decision goes beyond the bounds of rationality on many levels.”

In its ruling, Goldman ordered Quicken and its related companies to reject two dozen “too broad” rules, such as disclosing non-public financial or operating information to non-employees and asking employees to dress and behave “professionally”. when you represent Quicken Loans in public or on social media.

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The judge also challenged a statement in the Big Book that “If this doesn’t make headlines in The New York Times, don’t put it online.”

The NLRB case stems from a complaint filed by former Quicken employee Hugh MacEachern, 61, of Taylor, who was hired in July 2013 after working there for several months as a temporary employee. He was fired in December 2014 after telling Quicken he was speaking with the Communications Workers of America about forming a union at Quicken, and he claims Quicken fired him in retaliation.

The NLRB’s regional office in Detroit investigated the complaint and declined to press charges for MacEachern’s dismissal. Instead, he filed the complaint against the Quicken Employee Handbook Rules.

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