Policy Week in Review – January 30, 2026
At a Glance The Policy Week in Review, prepared by Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute (WPI), sets forth WPI’s updates on federal, state, and local matters. NLRB Division of Advice Recommends Dismissal of Expansive Charges The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Division of Advice (“Advice”) released a series of memos that recommended dismissal of charges that appear to have taken expansive views of Biden-era Board precedents . Advice is a department of the Board that provides guidance to regional offices about novel or difficult legal issues . In these memos, Advice recommended that the regional officials dismiss three charges. The first involved a union’s claim for recognition in an expanded unit where the union didn’t file a failure to bargain charge necessary to get a bargaining order. The second involved a newspaper employee’s criticism of the employer on a Slack channel and a related work rule. The third involved an allegedly overbroad non-solicitation provision in a former em...