Punching In: NLRB Lawyer Advances Efforts to Beef Up Remedies

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

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Robert Iafolla: NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s campaign to expand the agency’s deterrent power has appeared in a recent administrative law judge’s ruling against Starbucks Corp., highlighting the breadth of her effort.

In a decision earlier this month, Administrative Law Judge Christal Key declined to impose enhancements to the standard notice remedy that National Labor Relations Board prosecutors sought against Starbucks, saying that she’d leave it to the general counsel to make her arguments to the board.

Abruzzo’s goal is to add teeth to that notice remedy, ...