The National Labor Relations Board bungled its handling of an important case in response to conflict-of-interest concerns, the board’s top lawyer said.
NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb late April 5 asked the board to allow Member William Emanuel to make his own decision about whether he should sit out the Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors case. Robb said the board’s other three members—Chairman Marvin Kaplan (R), Lauren McFerran (D), and Mark Gaston Pearce (D)—wrongly decided to scrap a previous ruling in the case after the NLRB’s inspector general said Emanuel shouldn’t have participated in the case.
“The three other Board Members appear ...
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