NLRB Top Lawyer Revives Transparency Custom After Trump-era Halt

The National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer published the agency’s responses to an American Bar Association committee’s questions for the first time in five years, returning to a bipartisan tradition of transparency and engagement with the labor law community that stopped during the Trump administration.

NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said it was “prudent” to share the nearly 80 queries posed by the ABA’s Practice and Procedure Under the National Labor Relations Act Committee and the agency’s answers, according to a memo published Thursday.

“It’s important for me to be transparent about Agency operations; therefore, I am returning to the ...