The National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer told regional agency officials to dial back efforts to police employer handbooks and workplace rules, calling for a focus on those that are obvious violations.
NLRB General Counsel Crystal Carey said in a memo Friday her review of pending cases turned up multiple allegations targeting potentially unlawful rules without any evidence showing they harmed workers or that employers enforced them.
“Pursuing such cases is not an efficient use of our already limited Agency resources,” Carey said.
The general counsel’s instructions to soften employer handbook policing was one of several pieces of case handling ...