Compliance Stuff

  The Board has a quorum again . . . for now. In one of his first acts after taking office, President Trump fired Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board and former Chairman. I wrote about the Wilcox termination  here  and questioned whether it was valid. Well, according to Judge Beryl Howell of the District of Columbia (an Obama appointee), it isn't. Ms. Wilcox sued the Trump Administration after her termination and moved for summary judgment. In a  decision  issued earlier today, Judge Howell granted Ms. Wilcox's motion and  ordered  that she continues* to be a Member of the Board . *This is not a typo. Judge Howell is saying that Ms. Wilcox never stopped being a Member of the NLRB because her termination was not valid. The judge also denied a motion for summary judgment filed by the Administration and enjoined the Administration from terminating Ms. Wilcox or interfering in the performance of her duties in any way. T...

  And you thought they’d be asleep the next four years. This week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a  press release  indicating that the EEOC would be cracking down on antisemitism in the workplace, with special emphasis on college and university workplaces. Although institutions of higher education are the primary focus of the EEOC, the press release made clear that  no  employers should tolerate antisemitic harassment or discrimination. (The EEOC does not have jurisdiction over antisemitism that targets students, but of course other government agencies do.) The press release quotes Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas as follows: In the wake of the . . . Hamas terror attacks in Israel, news coverage of the severe outbreaks of antisemitism at our country’s leading universities focused on the students affected . . .. But universities are workplaces, too, and large-scale employers. In addition to Jewish professors on campus, universities employ ...