WeWork Will Change Employee Handbook After Labor Board Dispute
The settlement comes after the labor board said employees could interpret parts of the document as forbidding them from discussing wages and unionizing.
WeWork Meatpacking office in New York.
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WeWork Cos., the world's largest co-working startup, will change some sections of its employee handbook and tell workers that they have the right to form a union as part of a settlement in a National Labor Relations Board case.
The agreement, which WeWork signed Friday, comes after the labor board said in August that employees could interpret parts of the company's policies as forbidding them from engaging in legal activities, such as discussing wages and unionizing. One offending section of the handbook, titled "Do the Right Thing," told employees to weigh whether a situation may be unethical by asking themselves questions like, "How would I feel if it made headlines in news outlets?"