Labor Board Members Accused of Foul Play

Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors asked the National Labor Relations Board March 9 to reconsider a recent decision on the closely watched joint employer issue, arguing that board members “obliterated” the company’s right to due process.

Hy-Brand’s lawyer alleged NLRB Chairman Marvin Kaplan (R), and members Mark Gaston Pearce (D) and Lauren McFerran (D) wrongly shut member William Emanuel (R) out of the board’s recent decision to scrap an earlier ruling in an unfair labor practice case against the company. That decision left in place a contriversial Obama era ruling that made it easier to tag multiple companies as joint employers for ...