Quality Elevated Over Speed in New NLRB Case Handling Directive

NLRB investigators will get longer deadlines for more significant cases under new case handling guidelines, the agency’s top lawyer announced in a directive that rolled back a Trump-era initiative prioritizing speed.

National Labor Relations Board regional offices will no longer be required to annually reduce the average length of a case, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo told agency officials in a memo Friday.

The new system provides regional staffers with 105 days to investigate the cases with the highest impact, such as claims involving loss of employment and charges stemming from union organizing campaigns, the memo said. Cases with less impact ...