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Monday, March 1, 2021 President Joe Biden summarily removed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) Peter Robb from office on January 20, 2021, and removed Robb’s deputy, Alice Stock the following day. On January 25, 2021, the president named Peter Sung Ohr to be acting General Counsel. Ohr was the NLRB’s Chicago office Regional Director. Because President Biden subsequently nominated Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as GC, Ohr will continue to serve as acting GC presumably until the Senate acts upon the nomination. As the NLRB official tasked with prosecuting cases...

In Pacific Lutheran, the Board set out a framework for determining whether faculty members are managerial employees under the Act. Under the framework, the Board considers petitioned-for faculty members’ participation in five areas of decision-making: academic programs, enrollment management policies, finances, academic policies, and personnel policies and decisions. The Board gives greater weight to the first three “primary” areas of consideration, which affect the institution as a whole, and less to the two “secondary” areas. The party asserting managerial status bears the burden...

Introduction In our last Review, we reported that the National Labor Relations Board had a very busy year.  Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was also a fairly busy year for the Board.  In its final year, the Trump Board produced a number of key decisions for employers.  Whether those decision stand the test of time remains to be seen, because the Biden Board will soon begin its work.  In the meantime, we will review the highlights from 2020 and preview some of the possible changes that may be down the road. Like so many of us, the Board was forced to convert nearly of...

A National Labor Relations Board panel on Monday upheld a regional official's decision certifying a Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Union election win at a waste disposal company, rejecting arguments that an outage during the streamed ballot count tainted the vote.

The Biden administration has made some early moves that strongly suggest it intends significant changes from the five-member National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that manufacturers...