Heavy Caseload Worth Pushing Through, NLRB General Counsel Says

The uptick in unfair labor practice charges and election petitions before the National Labor Relations Board amid a staffing shortage and funding constraints are causing a strain on field workers and attorneys with pending cases, the agency’s top lawyer said.

“We have to do a quality job because there’s nowhere else workers who felt their rights have been violated” could go and seek relief if there’s no private right of action for them to sue in court, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said Thursday at a labor and employment conference hosted by the American Bar Association in Seattle, Wash.

Abruzzo ...