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Transitions between administrations are always about change, in policies as well as personnel. Historically, the decisions of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) shift with changes in administrations and presidential appointment of NLRB members and positions in the Office of the General Counsel. Given President Joe Biden’s commitment to strengthening labor laws on behalf of workers, the Husch Blackwell Labor & Employment group anticipates dramatic shifts in labor law interpretation, which may cause disruptions to business operations as employers negotiate these changes. Indeed, President Biden, in an unprecedented move, fired the NLRB’s General Counsel the day after his inauguration, and appointed a more union-friendly Acting General Counsel, Peter Sung Ohr.
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NLRB Says Fight Over Acting GC s Appointment Up To Courts
Law360 (April 30, 2021, 4:58 PM EDT) The National Labor Relations Board declined Friday to resolve whether President Joe Biden s replacement of the agency s general counsel violated federal labor law and the Constitution, saying the high-profile dispute over the prosecutor s authority is best left to the courts.
The unanimous decision in a case involving a broadcast employees union marks the board s first substantive ruling on Biden s decision to remove former general counsel Peter Robb from office months before his term expired and replace him in an acting capacity with Peter Sung Ohr. Businesses and others litigating against unions before the board have argued that Biden s actions violated the National.
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A series of National Labor Relations Board advice memos resolved issues ranging from a dispute over whether a hospital illegally withheld details of a collaboration with Google from its workers' union to whether workers were illegally fired for leaving work to protest immigration policies.