The National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer is urging attorneys with cases before the board to exercise patience as the agency pushes to cut down an expanding workload amid a staffing shortage and budget constraints.
“We are very understaffed and under-resourced,” NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said Wednesday at a conference hosted by New York University School of Law.
“I will give a plea to all those practitioners out there: If you have cases before us, please be patient. We are working as hard as we can. We’re doing quality work,” Abruzzo said. “But because we don’t have sufficient staff, ...