NLRB Top Lawyer Expands on Rules for Setting Union Votes by Mail

Employers who want their workers to vote in union elections in person during the pandemic must give the National Labor Relations Board information on the scope of Covid-19 infections among their personnel, the agency’s top lawyer said.

Those employers should tell the NLRB how many staffers have tested positive in the preceding two weeks as part of their submissions on election arrangements, General Counsel Peter Robb said in a memo released earlier this week. They should then alert the agency of any positive test results or potentially exposed workers up to the day of the election itself, Robb said.

Robb’s ...