The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has instructed agency regional directors and other officials charged with investigating unfair labor practice charges to consider whether the immigration status of affected employees may affect the Board’s ability to proceed in litigation and fashion effective remedies.
On February 27, 2015, General Counsel Robert F. Griffin,…
The Employee Empowerment Act, introduced in Congress on July 30, would make the right to unionize a federally protected civil right, allowing aggrieved employees to file private lawsuits against their employers, similar to protections currently available under federal law against discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics such national origin, sex, race, religion and…
National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard Griffin’s 18-page General Counsel Memorandum (GC 14-02), “Report on the Midwinter Meeting of the ABA Practice and Procedure Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section,” issued March 26, 2014, covers a wide-range of topics, including unfair labor practice statistics and Agency plans for guidance memoranda regarding employer…
The National Labor Relations Board is temporarily closed due to a lapse in appropriated funds. Accordingly, the NLRB issued an order on October 1, 2013 postponing all elections and pre- and post-election hearings that have been scheduled between October 1, 2013 and October 11, 2013. In the event of a continued closure, the order advised…
