William Emanuel is an American lawyer and government official who formerly served as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Prior to assuming that role, he was a shareholder at the law firm

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Biography

Emanuel received his A.B. from

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and his J.D. from

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. He has spent most of his career as a pro-management labor law attorney based in California. His clients have included trade associations, hospitals, school districts, and transportation, logistics, and manufacturing companies. In June 2017, President

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nominated Emanuel to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board, which is entrusted with protecting the rights of union members. Emanuel's nomination was supported by a number of business groups and anti-union advocates. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 25, 2017. 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."

Ethics investigation

In February 2018,

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reported that the NLRB

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is investigating whether Emanuel violated government ethics rules. In December 2017, the NLRB had voted 3–2 to reverse its August 2015 determination that

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involves joint employment. In February 2018, the NLRB vacated that decision after the NLRB's Inspector General reported that Emanuel should have been recused because he had been the franchiser's attorney in the 2015 matter.

References

External links

Biography at NLRB
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