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After being reportedly close to nominating retired Jones Day partner Roger King for the role, the White House announced last Friday that President Donald Trump will nominate Peter Robb, a management-side labor and employment attorney from Vermont, as the new NLRB General Counsel.
After being reportedly close to nominating retired Jones Day
partner Roger King for the role, the White House announced last
Friday that President Donald Trump will nominate Peter Robb, a
management-side labor and employment attorney from Vermont, as the
new NLRB General Counsel. If confirmed, he will replace former
President Barack Obama's current appointee, Richard F. Griffin,
Jr., whose term expires this November.
Since 1995, Robb has been with Downs Rachlin Martin, a
Vermont-based law firm. Robb represents corporations in all aspects
of labor and employment law. Robb has recently published articles
critical of the NLRB's rules designed to speed up the
representation election process and of the Board's recent
decisions that have struck down common workplace rules. Robb has
experience working for the NLRB. He worked as a NLRB field attorney
and Chief Counsel to former Board Member Robert Hunter.
This announcement comes as the Board commences to change to a
Republican-majority Board– the first time this has occurred
in over a decade. As a result, we expect to see policy shifts in
the next upcoming years.
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