Understaffed NLRB Navigates Trump Process for Hiring Approval

The National Labor Relations Board is in the process of obtaining authorization from the Trump administration to begin hiring workers after suffering a year of grinding attrition.

NLRB General Counsel Crystal Carey said Wednesday that she was able to add language to previously prepared staffing plans that need Office of Personnel Management approval to emphasize that the agency lost over 200 staffers—roughly twice as many as the White House required under its reduction-in-force initiative.

“I really can’t emphasize enough how important it was for us, as we were working through the documents that already went through multiple layers of approval, ...