The National Labor Relations Board will conduct a meeting at its Washington, DC headquarters on April 10 and 11 for members of the public to share their views about recently proposed amendments to the Board’s rules governing representation-case procedures. On February 6, 2014, the NLRB published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, proposing to amend its rules and regulations governing the filing and processing of petitions relating to the representation of employees for purposes of collective bargaining with their employer. Additional days of meeting may be scheduled for April 8 and/or 9.  The open meeting was announced in the Federal Register on February 26th.

Those who wish to speak at the meeting must submit a Request to Speak, which must be received by the Board no later than March 10, 2014, and must conform to the requirements set forth in the Notice of Meeting.  If there are more requests to speak than there are available time slots, the Board will allocate the available time slots based on the content of the requests so that a variety of viewpoints are represented. In addition, due to seating considerations, persons who desire to attend the meeting must submit a Request to Attend, which must be received by the Board no later than March 31, 2014.