The Trump administration’s efforts to establish its legal power to terminate officials at the president’s behest poses a grave threat to agencies intended to be independent, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said Wednesday.
Abruzzo, who was fired by President Donald Trump last year, raised concerns about the potential reversal of 90-year-old legal precedent protecting these officials, as well as the impact on the National Labor Relations Board, at an American Bar Association employment law conference in New Orleans.
“Potentially having what used to be independent federal agencies basically making decisions on, at best self interest, because they don’t want to ...
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