National Labor Relations Board member William Emanuel was cleared this week by the NLRB Ethics Office to participate in NLRB discussions and deliberations surrounding the agency’s definition of joint employer. You will recall that Emanuel participated in the Board decision last year to reverse the expanded definition of joint employer in the Browning Ferris decision…
Read More »Through the veil of the Fight for $15 movement that it has bankrolled, SEIU demanded that two of the republican members of the National Labor Relations Board recuse themselves this week from decisions involving a pending settlement of a major McDonald’s case. The settlement was rejected by an NLRB administrative law judge last month and…
Read More »Earlier this week the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reversed an earlier decision and reinstated the expanded Obama-era definition of joint employer. Prompted by a report from the NLRB Office of the Inspector General that found one of the members, William Emanuel, should not have participated in the decision, the 3 remaining members voted unanimously…
Read More »The NLRB Inspector General completed its investigation into the NLRB Board vote overturning the joint-employer ruling and concluded Director William Emanuel should not have participated. The Board reversed the 2015 Browning-Ferris decision on joint employment and reinstated the historic definition back in December with the full 5 NLRB members participating. Subsequently, it became known that…
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