Senate Committee Postpones Vote on NLRB. This week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) was forced to postpone a scheduled vote to advance the nomination of Scott Mayer to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Republicans hold a slim 12–11 voting majority on the HELP Committee, meaning that a loss of just one vote could make it challenging to approve any nominee. Mayer’s nomination thus lags behind fellow Board nominee James Murphy and NLRB general counsel nominee, Crystal Carey, both of whom have already been approved by the committee and await a vote on the Senate floor.
President Trump Sends EEOC GC Nominee to Senate. President Donald Trump has nominated management attorney M. Carter Crow to serve as general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Given the administration’s theory that the Commission is not an independent agency but rather firmly within the executive branch, if confirmed, Carter can likely be expected to pursue an enforcement agenda that tracks with EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas’s priorities (which align with those of the administration). The Commission’s previous acting general counsel, Andrew Rogers, is now the administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Principal deputy general counsel, Catherine Eshbach, is currently performing the duties of the general counsel at the Commission. T. Scott Kelly, Nonnie L. Shivers, James J. Plunkett...
Rod Stewart has hit out at US President Donald Trump over his false claims about British troops in Afghanistan. The rock star has urged UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Reform UK leader Nigel Fa...