Case: Labor Relations/Discharge (5th Cir.)

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit partially granted Harvard Maintenance’s petition for review of a National Labor Relations Board decision, ruling that while substantial evidence supported the NLRB’s findings that the company made coercive statements and unlawfully discharged cleaner Carina Cruz for engaging in protected activities under the National Labor Relations Act, the Board exceeded its statutory authority by awarding consequential damages as the NLRA only permits equitable remedies, not legal relief for “direct or foreseeable pecuniary harms.”

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