Marvin Elliot Kaplan is an American lawyer and government official who is a member and former chairman of the

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. Prior to assuming his current role, he was the chief counsel of the

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. In June 2017, President

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nominated Kaplan to be a member of the NLRB for a term expiring on August 27, 2020. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 2, 2017, by a vote of 50–48. On March 2, 2020, Trump announced that he would renominate Kaplan for a second five-year term expiring on August 27, 2025. On July 29, 2020, Kaplan was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 52–46, thereby keeping the NLRB in solid Republican control.

Biography

Kaplan received his

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from

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and his

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from

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. After practicing law in

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law firm McDowell Rice Smith & Buchanan, he began his career as special assistant in the

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's Office of Labor-Management and Standards. He has also served as counsel to the

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and to the

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. Kaplan served as chief counsel of the

. He was nominated by President

to be a member of the

for a term expiring on August 27, 2020. Kaplan's nomination, which was approved by the U.S. Senate on August 2, 2017, was supported by a number of business groups and anti-union advocates. According to ''

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'', the National Labor Relations Board is "likely to consider a number of significant legal issues once the vacancies are filled, including the NLRB's test for determining whether joint employer relationships exist, the standards for evaluating whether handbooks and work rules interfere with employees' rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), appropriate units for collective bargaining, the question of whether graduate students and research assistants are employees under the NLRA with the right to collective bargaining and a host of other decisions from the past eight years that more expansively interpreted the NLRA."

References

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