Labor Board to Issue Guidelines for In-Person Union Elections

The National Labor Relations Board will soon issue protocols for administering in-person union elections after proceeding with mail ballots in most contests since the start of the pandemic, General Counsel Peter Robb said during a webinar on labor issues related to the novel coronavirus.

The board has held four in-person elections since the emergence of the pandemic prompted local, state, and federal health authorities to issue social distancing guidelines and other measures to prevent the spread of the virus, Robb said during the event, which was hosted by the National Employment Law Council. Those manual, on-site elections were the result ...