Employers could face liability for the economic consequences of unlawfully terminating workers in addition to traditional remedies like back pay and reinstatement, according to the National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer.
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo advised regional officials to seek consequential damages—a remedy that two board members recently expressed support of potentially adopting—in a memo issued Wednesday. Such damages could cover things like medical expenses that workers had to pay out of pocket because they lost health insurance as a result of being fired in violation of federal labor law.
Abruzzo’s memo, which discusses a variety of remedies for ...
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