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Title 29 — LaborRelease 119-73not60

§154 National Labor Relations Board; Eligibility for Reappointment; Officers and Employees; Payment of Expenses

Title 29 › Chapter 7— LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS › Subchapter II— NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS › § 154

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Board members and the General Counsel can be reappointed and must not hold any other job. The Board must hire an executive secretary, lawyers, examiners, regional directors, and other staff it needs. The Board generally may not hire lawyers just to read hearing transcripts or draft opinions, except a lawyer who is assigned as a legal assistant to a Board member may do those tasks for that member. Only a Board member or that member’s legal assistant may review an administrative law judge’s report, and judges may not advise the Board about objections to their own findings. The Board may use regional or local agencies and unpaid helpers. Appointed lawyers can represent the Board in court when the Board directs. The Board may not hire people just for conciliation, mediation, or economic analysis. All of the Board’s expenses, including necessary travel and living costs outside the District of Columbia for members or employees under Board orders, will be paid when itemized vouchers are submitted and approved by the Board or a person the Board names.

Full Legal Text

Title 29, §154

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(a)Each member of the Board and the General Counsel of the Board shall be eligible for reappointment, and shall not engage in any other business, vocation, or employment. The Board shall appoint an executive secretary, and such attorneys, examiners, and regional directors, and such other employees as it may from time to time find necessary for the proper performance of its duties. The Board may not employ any attorneys for the purpose of reviewing transcripts of hearings or preparing drafts of opinions except that any attorney employed for assignment as a legal assistant to any Board member may for such Board member review such transcripts and prepare such drafts. No administrative law judge’s report shall be reviewed, either before or after its publication, by any person other than a member of the Board or his legal assistant, and no administrative law judge shall advise or consult with the Board with respect to exceptions taken to his findings, rulings, or recommendations. The Board may establish or utilize such regional, local, or other agencies, and utilize such voluntary and uncompensated services, as may from time to time be needed. Attorneys appointed under this section may, at the direction of the Board, appear for and represent the Board in any case in court. Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to authorize the Board to appoint individuals for the purpose of conciliation or mediation, or for economic analysis.
(b)All of the expenses of the Board, including all necessary traveling and subsistence expenses outside the District of Columbia incurred by the members or employees of the Board under its orders, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the Board or by any individual it designates for that purpose.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Provisions of subsec. (a) which prescribed the basic compensation of members of the Board and the General Counsel were omitted to conform to the provisions of the Executive Schedule. See section 5314 and 5315 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. In subsec. (a), “administrative law judge’s” and “administrative law judge” substituted for “trial examiner’s” and “trial examiner”, respectively, pursuant to section 3105 of Title 5, and section 3 of Pub. L. 95–251, Mar. 27, 1978, 92 Stat. 184, which is set out as a note under section 3105 of Title 5.

Amendments

1947—Act June 23, 1947, amended section generally by increasing Board members’ salaries from $10,000 to $12,000 per annum, by providing a salary of $12,000 per annum for the General Counsel, striking out former subsec. (b) relating to termination of “Old Board”, and redesignating subsec. (c) relating to payment of expenses of Board as subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1947 AmendmentFor

Effective Date

of amendment by act
June 23, 1947, see section 104 of act
June 23, 1947, set out as a note under section 151 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

29 U.S.C. § 154

Title 29 — Labor

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60