The National Labor Relations Board can’t order monetary compensation for the downstream consequences of an employer’s unfair labor practices, a federal appeals court ruled in a case between the agency and
The NLRB overstepped its authority by mandating that the coffee giant pay for “all direct or foreseeable pecuniary harms” stemming from its illegal firing of a Michigan union organizer, a divided US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held Wednesday.
The ruling deepens a circuit split on the board’s remedial power, with the Sixth Circuit joining the Third and Fifth circuits to reject remedies ordered under ...