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NLRB void finally to be filled
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Sylvia Hsieh
Published: July 15, 2009
Tags: National Labor Relations Board
The three empty seats on the National Labor Relations Board may finally be filled now that the White House has sent three nominations to the Senate.
The Board has been operating with a two-member panel since Jan. 1, 2008, calling into question over 400 cases decided by the pair.
Although federal law calls for a panel of five members, §3(b) of the National Labor Relations Act requires the Board to operate “at all times” with a quorum of at least three members.
The 1st Circuit and 7th Circuit have held that the NLRB has the power to conduct business without a quorum.
But the D.C. Circuit came to the opposite conclusion in Laurel Baye Healthcare of Lake Lanier Inc. v. NLRB.
The split may wind up in the Supreme Court.
The three nominees are Craig Becker and Mark Gaston Pearce for the two vacant Democratic seats and Brian Hayes for the Republican seat.
Becker is associate general counsel for the Service Employees International Union with the AFL-CIO. Pearce is a labor law attorney in private practice in Buffalo, N.Y. Hayes currently serves as the Republican labor policy director for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
The sitting members are Wilma B. Liebman and Peter C. Schaumber.
- Sylvia Hsieh
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