
Labor board and New York agree to dismiss preemption lawsuit
The NLRB says it and New York will drop the agency's suit over a state law that would let PERB hear cases when the federal board lacks a quorum.
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The NLRB says it and New York will drop the agency's suit over a state law that would let PERB hear cases when the federal board lacks a quorum.

Federal inspectors cite Orchids Builders for two willful and four repeated fall protection violations at residential jobsites, proposing penalties of nearly 350,000 dollars.

A divided panel held July 21 that the NLRB exceeded its statutory authority when it required a new owner to recognize a union without an election.

The commission's June 29 vote pulls the federal interpretive framework that employers long relied on when running voluntary workplace affirmative action plans.