Local Joint Executive Board of Las Vegas v. NLRB

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The Ninth Circuit granted the union's petition for review of the Board's order declining to award make-whole relief. This case arose when the now-defunct Hacienda Resort Hotel and Casino and Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas violated section 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 29 U.S.C. 158(a)(5), by unilaterally terminating the union's dues-checkoff without bargaining to agreement or impasse. The panel held that the Board clearly abused its discretion in declining to award the standard remedy of make-whole relief where it did not provide a valid explanation for departing from its standard remedy in dues-checkoff cases, and where the Board effectively ordered no relief at all by ordering prospective-only relief against defunct entities. The panel vacated the Board's order and remanded for the Board to award standard make-whole relief. View "Local Joint Executive Board of Las Vegas v. NLRB" on Justia Law