Honors Attorney - Field Offices

Summary

This position is established as part of the National Labor Relations Board Honors program. The Honors program supports positions working in three different program areas: Board, General Counsel-Headquarters, and General Counsel-Field.

This position resides in a Field Office of the National Labor Relations Board.

The Field Offices represent the actual operating arm of the Agency, the means through which both the Board and the General Counsel reach the public.

Duties

As a General Attorney (Labor) (Honors Attorney), GS-0905-12, typical work assignments in the Regions may include:

• Analyzing a variety of simple to moderately more complex cases, including charges of unfair labor practices, petitions to determine collective-bargaining representatives or to decertify labor organizations and petitions to rescind union security contract clauses; and
• Presenting evidence and examining witnesses in an administrative hearing alleging violation of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, and related proceedings involving the Board and its agents in the other federal courts - under direct supervision; and
• Examining cases by reviewing all pertinent records of the charged party and the charging party to determine if new/amended charges; and
• Preparing legal documents, opinions, drafts, or comments when a decision has been reached by a relevant decision maker.

The NLRB is an independent federal agency created in 1935 to administer and enforce the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the primary federal statute governing labor-management relations in the private sector. The NLRA protects the right of employees to choose for themselves, without interference by employers or unions, whether to form, join, assist, or collectively bargain through a labor organization, and to otherwise join together for their mutual aid or protection, or to refrain from all such activity. The NLRB enforces these statutory rights to remedy the known inequality of bargaining power between employees and their employers, to promote the full freedom of association of workers, and to strengthen the Nation’s economy by promoting the peaceful resolution of disputes that might otherwise cause disruptions to commerce.