A fully constituted NLRB is comprised of five members. Decisions are typically issued by three-member NLRB panels. Three is also the minimum number of members the NLRB must have to
Continue Reading NLRB is likely to operate with just four members for the time being.
Undergraduate resident advisors usually wield a lot of power over university residence halls and those who occupy them. You likely know this already if you were ever a college freshman
Continue Reading Undergraduate Resident Advisors May Possibly Unionize…For Now
On February 2, 2018, a split three-member Board panel held that a prior election won by a union must be vacated and, accordingly, ordered a second election as it found
Continue Reading “Better Late than Never” Does Not Apply When Conducting a Union Election
On January 29, 2018, the DC Circuit remanded a 2016 NLRB decision – Grill Concepts Servs., Inc., 364 NLRB No. 36 (2016) – back to the Board for reconsideration
Continue Reading Second Times the Charm? The NLRB Permitted Another Chance to Analyze Restaurant’s Work Rules
A recent Memorandum from Peter B. Robb, the NLRB’s newly installed General Counsel, reminded me of a stanza from Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus and The Carpenter. To paraphrase: “The
Continue Reading New NRLB General Counsel to Regional Offices: Call Me
You know the old saying, ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,’ right? Well, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has never really liked this idea, especially during
Continue Reading The DC Circuit Is Not Persuaded: The NLRB’s Revised Back Pay Formula Survives (For Now)