The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted the National Labor Relations Board’s petition to decide if a former acting general counsel of the NLRB served in violation of federal law. NLRB v. SW General, Inc., Case 15-1251 (June 20, 2016).
As we wrote here earlier (“Complaint Issued by NLRB’s Acting General Counsel was Unauthorized…
Vacating a Board order adopting an Administrative Law Judge’s decision holding that an employer violated Sections 8(a)(1) and (5) of the National Labor Relations Act by ceasing to pay longevity pay under a collective bargaining agreement between the employer and the union representing its employees, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has…
The nomination of former National Labor Relations Board Member Richard Griffin to be General Counsel of the NLRB has been approved by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The vote was 13-9. If approved by the full Senate, Griffin, a former union lawyer, will replace Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon. A full-Senate…
