NLRB’s Top Lawyer Seeks Stronger Remedies for Illegal Work Rules

March 19, 2024, 7:56 PM UTC

The National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer is asking the board to strengthen the remedies it imposes for companies’ violations of labor law involving illegal rules or contract terms.

Making a worker whole for suffering the effects of a faulty rule or contract term means addressing its lingering harms, such as expunging any discipline or retracting past enforcement connected to that rule or term, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said in a brief filed Monday.

“Simply put, had the unlawful provision not existed, no disciplinary or legal enforcement action could have been taken pursuant to that provision,” according to the ...

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