KBJ Makes History. On April 7, 2022, the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Jackson was confirmed by a vote of 53–47, with Republicans Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Mitt Romney (Utah) all voting for confirmation. Judge Jackson will be the first female African-American justice on the Court— a momentous occasion in U.S. judicial history. Of course, Judge Jackson will have to wait a few weeks until Justice Stephen Breyer officially steps down, at which time she can be appointed to fill the vacancy.
NLRB GC to Target Employer Speech. On April 7, 2022, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum to regional offices on “The Right to Refrain from Captive Audience and other Mandatory Meetings.” In the memo, Abruzzo writes “when employees are (1) forced to convene on paid time or (2) cornered by management while performing their job duties” they are “deprived of their statutory right to refrain, and instead are compelled to listen by threat of discipline, discharge, or other reprisal—a threat that employees will reasonably perceive even if it is not stated explicitly.” General Counsel Abruzzo states that she will be submitting to the Board a brief in which she will recommend that “the Board adopt sensible assurances that an employer must convey to employees in order to make clear that their attendance is truly voluntary.”
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