NLRB General Counsel Releases Updated Memo on 'Prosecutorial Priorities'

“Placing these issues before the Board for reconsideration is one of my most important objectives as General Counsel."— NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo

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This afternoon, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a press release updating the NLRB’s General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s prosecutorial priorities.

From the NLRB (emphasis added):

Today, General Counsel Abruzzo sent a memo to all Regional Directors, Officers-in-Charge, and Resident Officers with an update to her August 2021 memo on her prosecutorial priorities. The new memo provides an updated list of mandatory submissions to the Division of Advice, as well as 46 issue areas that no longer need to be submitted because Regional Offices are diligently utilizing Advice guidance including, where appropriate, filing exceptions to place these issues before the Board. While 17 cases raising many of these issues are currently pending before the Board, Regional Offices are advised to continue to present them to ALJs and the Board at every opportunity.

“Placing these issues before the Board for reconsideration is one of my most important objectives as General Counsel,” Abruzzo states in the new memo. “Without doing so, Board law that undermines workers’ statutory rights remains unchallenged, which will continue to detrimentally impact millions of employees throughout the country.” 

To download (in PDF) the new memo from the NLRB’s website, go here.

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