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Policy developments in the first 100 days of President Biden's Administration occurring at executive branch and independent agencies to include US DOL, National Labor Relations Board NLRB, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS.
Final Rule on Wage Protections for Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens Delayed Forced Labor | More Nitrile Glove Imports Seized **Upcoming Congressional Hearings** Biden Administration Labor Leadership Updates On May 12, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee advanced the following nominations out of committee for full Senate consideration: Jennifer Abruzzo, to serve as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), by a party-line vote of 11 to 11; Seema Nanda, to serve as Solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor by a vote of 14 to ...
Federal Labor Board’s Staff Cheered Biden’s Unprecedented Firing of Trump-Appointed General Counsel When President Joe Biden fired then-National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb within minutes of taking the oath of office on Jan. 20, career staffers cheered, according to internal emails obtained by the National Right to Work Foundation (NRTWF). Biden’s demand that Robb resign his post by the end of the official business day was delivered to him within 23 minutes of the inauguration, making the action one of the very first taken by the new president. When Robb refu...
Font Size: A faction of staffers within the National Labor Relations Board celebrated President Joe Biden’s unprecedented termination of the agency’s former leader, emails obtained by the Freedom Foundation showed. In an unprecedented move, Biden fired former General Counsel Peter Robb, who had been appointed by former President Donald Trump, hours after taking office on Jan. 20. “Hi Peter, so exciting,” NLRB senior attorney Neelam Kundra wrote to the general counsel Peter Ohr on Jan. 25, according to one of the emails. “And such a REFRESHING change!!!” A pro-union faction of staf...
Monday, May 17, 2021 he National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) declined to modify its “contract bar” rule. Under NLRB procedure, once a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is executed, the Board will not process a request for a representation election concerning the employees in that bargaining unit unless the petition is filed within a 30-day “window period” (typically, between the last 60-90 days prior to the CBA expiration), or after the contract expires, or after the third anniversary of any CBA that is longer than three years. This is referred to as the “contract ba...