A majority of the National Labor Relations Board’s 26 regional offices have at least one vacancy or temporary appointment in leadership, creating top-level personnel gaps that some observers say can hinder the agency’s work and sap employee morale.
Effective management at the regional level is crucial to the agency’s mission because of the sheer volume of work that the offices handle, former NLRB officials and staffers said. The regional offices are responsible for processing unfair labor practice charges and representation petitions, investigating cases, issuing complaints when charges have merit, authorizing union elections, and litigating matters before administrative law judges.
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