U.S. High Court To Decide On Validity Of NLRB Acting General Counsel

Mealey's (June 20, 2016, 12:39 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 20 granted a petition for writ of certiorari in an appeal of a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision in which the appellate panel held that a former acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) served in violation of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA) (5 U.S. Code Section 3345, et seq.) for nearly two years and, as a result, the unfair labor practice complaint he issued against an ambulance company was unauthorized (National Labor Relations Board v. SW General, Inc., doing business as Southwest Ambulance, No. 15-1251, U.S. Sup.)....