Opinion ID: 379143
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Present Cases

Text: 52 In Barney's Club and Sparks Nugget the respondent employers are engaged primarily in the direct service of customers through their gambling, restaurant and bar facilities. There is no contention that any of these facilities serve primarily as employee-service areas. Thus, under the previously-discussed precedents, the respondents could promulgate no-solicitation rules which prohibited employees from engaging in solicitation or distribution of materials in areas open to the public even during nonworking periods. 53 We agree with the Board, though, that the rules promulgated by the respondents were overly broad and thus invalid. However, the Board's orders in these cases were themselves overly broad. The orders stated that the respondents must cease and desist from: 54 maintaining any rule or regulation prohibiting its employees from soliciting on its premises after their shifts have been completed unless such prohibition is demonstrably necessary to maintain production, discipline or security. 55 The orders go too far. Since the respondents could prohibit their employees from soliciting during nonworking hours in public areas of their premises, we modify the Board's order to read that the respondents must cease and desist from: 56 maintaining any rule or regulation prohibiting its employees from soliciting on its premises during nonworking hours in nonpublic areas of its premises, unless such prohibition is demonstrably necessary to maintain production, discipline or security. 57 We enforce the Board's order on this issue as modified.