Labor Board Asks to Keep Future Unspent Funds: Top Lawyer (1)

The federal labor board sought the authority to hold onto money that it doesn’t spend at the end of the year, shortly after the board had to return a $5.7 million surplus, General Counsel Peter Robb said.

The National Labor Relations Board didn’t plan on leaving so much money unspent at the end of the last two fiscal years, Robb said during a session at the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Conference in New Orleans. Typically, the agency leaves between $500,000 and $1 million in annual discretionary funding unspent to make sure it doesn’t go over budget, he ...