NLRB General Counsel Urges Patience Amid Caseload, Staffing Woes

The National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer is urging attorneys with cases before the board to exercise patience as the agency pushes to cut down an expanding workload amid a staffing shortage and budget constraints.

“We are very understaffed and under-resourced,” NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said Wednesday at a conference hosted by New York University School of Law.

“I will give a plea to all those practitioners out there: If you have cases before us, please be patient. We are working as hard as we can. We’re doing quality work,” Abruzzo said. “But because we don’t have sufficient staff, ...