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Mar 1, 2016

When Administrative Agencies Break the Laws They Enforce Because Even They Don’t Know What They Mean – What Good Is Their “Expertise”?

Many laws give authority to administrative agencies to actually interpret and enforce particular laws. For instance, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) is empowered to interpret and to enforce federal laws prohibiting wrongful discrimination in employment. The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) is similarly responsible for the interpretation and enforcement of federal labor laws.

Agencies such as the EEOC and the NLRB often issue interpretive guidelines. Those guidelines are supposed to explain what the specific … Read more

Feb 20, 2014

The National Labor Relations Act and the Rights of Non-Union Employees

In recent years the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has begun applying provisions of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), to non-union employers.  In particular, the NLRB has successfully applied Sections 7 and 8 of the NLRA to compel the reinstatement with back pay of employees who have criticized their employer on social media and to invalidate employer policies which would “reasonably tend to chill employees in the exercise of their Section 7 rights” to … Read more