William Emanuel
{{short description|American lawyer and government official|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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|office = Member of the National Labor Relations Board
|president = Donald Trump
|term_start = September 28, 2017
|term_end = August 27, 2021
|predecessor = Kent Yoshiho Hirozawa
|successor = David Prouty
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|party = Republican
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|education = Marquette University (AB)
Georgetown University (JD)
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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 Littler Mendelson.
Biography
Emanuel received his A.B. from Marquette University and his J.D. from Georgetown Law. He has spent most of his career as a pro-management labor law attorney based in California.{{cite news|last1=Morath|first1=Eric|title=Trump to Nominate Attorney William Emanuel to National Labor Relations Board|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-to-nominate-attorney-william-emanuel-to-national-labor-relations-board-1498650169|accessdate=July 18, 2017|publisher=Wall Street Journal|date=June 28, 2017}} His clients have included trade associations, hospitals, school districts, and transportation, logistics, and manufacturing companies.{{cite news|last1=Mulvaney|first1=Erin|title=Littler Mendelson's William Emanuel Gets Trump Nod for NLRB|url=http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202791661883/Littler-Mendelsons-William-Emanuel-Gets-Trump-Nod-for-NLRB|accessdate=July 18, 2017|publisher=The National Law Journal|date=June 27, 2017}}
In June 2017, President Donald Trump 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.{{cite news|last1=Hesson|first1=Ted|title=Trump taps Emanuel|url=https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-shift/2017/06/28/trump-taps-emanuel-221086|access-date=July 18, 2017|publisher=Politico|date=June 28, 2017}} He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 25, 2017.{{cite news|last1=Morath|first1=Eric|title=Senate Confirms William Emanuel for National Labor Relations Board|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-confirms-william-emanuel-for-national-labor-relations-board-1506379617|accessdate=October 24, 2017|publisher=Wall Street Journal|date=September 25, 2017}}
According to The National Law Review, 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."{{cite news|last1=Abrahms|first1=Adam|title=White House Nominates William Emanuel for Second of Two Vacancies on National Labor Relations Board|url=https://www.natlawreview.com/article/white-house-nominates-william-emanuel-second-two-vacancies-national-labor-relations|accessdate=July 18, 2017|publisher=The National Law Review|date=June 28, 2017}}
Ethics investigation
In February 2018, ProPublica reported that the NLRB Inspector General is investigating whether Emanuel violated government ethics rules.{{cite news|last1=MacDougall|first1=Ian|title=NLRB Member Is Under Investigation for a Conflict of Interest|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/william-emanuel-nlrb-member-is-under-investigation-for-a-conflict-of-interest|accessdate=February 4, 2018|publisher=ProPublica|date=February 8, 2018}} In December 2017, the NLRB had voted 3–2 to reverse its August 2015 determination that franchising involves joint employment.{{cite news|last1=Scheiber|first1=Noam|title=Labor Board Reverses Ruling That Helped Workers Fight Chains|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/business/economy/labor-employers.html|accessdate=4 March 2018|work=The New York Times|date=15 December 2017|page=B1}} 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.{{cite news|last1=Scheiber|first1=Noam|title=Labor Board's Do-Over Leaves an Obama-Era Rule Intact|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/business/economy/labor-board.html|accessdate=4 March 2018|work=The New York Times|date=27 February 2018|page=A14}}{{cite news|last1=Berry|first1=David P.|title=Notification of a Serious and Flagrant Problem|url=https://www.nlrb.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/basic-page/node-5976/OIG%20Report%20Regarding%20Hy_Brand%20Deliberations.pdf|accessdate=4 March 2018|agency=National Labor Relations Board Office of Inspector General}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.nlrb.gov/who-we-are/board/william-emanuel Biography at NLRB]
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Category:20th-century American lawyers
Category:21st-century American lawyers
Category:California Republicans
Category:Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Category:Marquette University alumni
Category:National Labor Relations Board officials