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Article: Ruling by D.C. Circuit puts hundreds of NLRB rulings in doubt
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- Lawyers USA
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- May 5, 2009
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A decision from the D.C. Circuit invalidating a ruling by the
National Labor Relations Board because its two members failed to
constitute a legal quorum has called into question hundreds of
rulings made by the board since it lost the majority of its members
more than a year ago.
The NLRB, the federal agency that governs private sector labor
relations, normally consists of five members, with three necessary
to constitute a decision-making quorum.
But at the end of 2007, as the terms of several NLRB members were
nearing an end, the Board moved to designate full Board authority to
three members.
The move was designed to ensure that two members would constitute
a quorum and have the authority to ...