NLRB Provides Know Your Rights Tools for Dollar General Workers

The National Labor Relations Board has updated and promoted a set of employee rights materials that are directly relevant to workers at Dollar General and other large retail chains. The agency emphasizes that most private sector employees have the right to act together to improve wages and working conditions, including forming, joining, or assisting a union, as well as engaging in concerted activities, and that workers are protected from employer retaliation for such activity.

The NLRB offers downloadable employee rights posters and multilingual materials designed for distribution in workplaces with diverse staffs. The resources also include guidance on how protections apply to social media and shop floor conversations about pay and working conditions. For employees who believe they have been disciplined for protected concerted activity, the agency provides step by step instructions for filing unfair labor practice charges or petitions for representation.

For Dollar General employees, the materials matter because the company employs tens of thousands of frontline workers in thousands of small stores across the country. Many of those stores rely on hourly staff who may discuss schedules, pay, and safety on the sales floor or online. The NLRB guidance clarifies that these types of collective discussions can be protected activity, and that employers may not lawfully discipline or threaten workers for participating in them.

Practical implications include the value of visibly posted rights information and access to materials in workers preferred languages. The NLRB posters and guides are meant to be a first stop for employees considering organizing or facing discipline after raising workplace concerns. They also give workers the procedural information needed to file charges or seek a representation election with the board.

Employees can access the materials, download posters, and read the filing instructions on the NLRB website. For Dollar General shops and managers, understanding these federal protections is a baseline for how workplace conversations about pay and conditions should be handled, and for ensuring that disciplinary actions do not cross into unlawful retaliation.