Trump Labor Board Lawyers’ Former Lives Tangle McDonald’s Case

The federal labor board, whose push to put the Trump stamp on workplace policy has been slowed by conflict-of-interest questions, won’t wait to finish updating its ethics rules before two members decide whether to participate in a controversial case involving McDonald’s.

“I think we all generally have a sense of what our rules are,” National Labor Relations Board Chairman John Ring (R) told Bloomberg Law of an ongoing ethics review in a Jan. 28 interview. “We just want to wrap this up so that those rules are clear to everyone and in one place.”

The board is currently reviewing ...