The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge by Macy’s to a National Labor Relations Board decision requiring the retailer to compensate employees who the company fired in a case in which the company sought to roll back the agency’s power to order such action.

Macy’s had appealed a lower court’s decision upholding the labor board’s action. Macy’s had asked the justices to resolve a split among federal appeals courts over the NLRB’s authority to require that companies found to have illegally fired employees make those workers whole for any related financial losses.

The NLRB is facing dozens of cases across the United States challenging its structure and in-house enforcement proceedings, as well as the agency’s longstanding protections against presidential interference in its decisions.

The NLRB in 2023, during Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration, decided that Macy’s acted unlawfully when it locked out and fired about 60 unionized building engineers in Nevada and California after they ended a strike over stalled contract negotiations. It also required Macy’s to post notices informing workers of their rights.

The board ordered Macy’s to reimburse the workers for any monetary harms caused when they were fired, and said it would determine at a later time whether any further remedies were appropriate.

The NLRB in a 2022 decision involving Thryv, a small business marketing software company, said it would begin ordering employers to reimburse workers...

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