• Employers must display labor law posters in a common area employees use.
• Posters may need to be displayed in more than one location or more than one building.

Employment law posters need to be displayed in a company location or locations where the posters can be readily seen by all employees. This could be any location employees are likely to frequent daily such as a lunchroom, breakroom, conference room, employee lounge, kitchen, or near a time clock.

If a company has more than one building, the location where posters are displayed will depend on where employees work. Employers may need to display posters in each facility or office location. Displaying the posters only in a main building may not make the information readily accessible to employees who work in other buildings, especially if workers never have occasion to enter the main building for work. The requirements typically say that notices should be posted where employees can readily observe the postings.

If employers have multiple breakrooms, posters should be displayed where employees regularly congregate. If all employees regularly visit the lunchroom, then a company may post the required posters there. If not, then post the posters in each breakroom or in another location where the posters can readily be seen by all employees.

Additional requirements

Posting requirements generally call for posters to be readable — the type cannot be so small a person cannot read it. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) posting requirement notes that the poster cannot be defaced.

In some cases, posters need to be a specific size. For example, the OSHA posting needs to be 8 ½” x 14”. Some state posters have size requirements as well.