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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently said it will no longer accept “consent orders,” in which an unfair labor practice is settled based on terms offered by one single party, known as “the Respondent,” but rejected by the other parties involved in the dispute (“the Charging Party and the General Counsel”).
In an Aug. 22 decision, the NLRB overruled a 2017 court case that upheld the practice of approving unilateral settlements, i.e., those reached without the agreement of the charging parties or the board’s general counsel. In the case of unfair labor practices (ULPs), respondents are typically employers, while charging