On July 17, 2025, President Trump submitted the nominations of Scott Mayer, Boeing’s chief labor counsel, and James Murphy, a veteran NLRB attorney, to fill the two Republican vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board. These 2025 NLRB Board nominations represent the next step toward re-establishing a functioning Board after a prolonged standoff that began … Read more
Marvin Kaplan
On January 20, 2025, newly inaugurated President Donald J. Trump promptly reinstated Marvin E. Kaplan as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Kaplan, who has been a member of the NLRB since August 10, 2017, previously served as its Chairman from December 21, 2017, to April 15, 2018. His current term is set … Read more
On May 9, 2018, the National Labor Relations Board announced that is considering rulemaking on the subject of joint employer status. The joint employer standard has received much attention in recent year. The Board’s Republican majority tried to change the standard for this important analysis through a December 2017 case decision. However, the NLRB later … Read more