Employers worried about perceived tensions between federal labor law anti-bias statutes shouldn’t raise their obligations under one as a reason to dodge their responsibilities under the other, according to the National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer.
Federal laws protecting the right to organize and prohibiting workplace discrimination operate in harmony “because neither body of law sets forth absolutes in areas of potential overlap,” NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said in a memo Thursday.
“Each leaves space for the other to operate,” she said. “Regulated parties thus can and must understand and comply with both sets of laws.”
Abruzzo’s memo provides ...
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