Protecting American Jobs Act

This bill would shrink what the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) can do. It limits the NLRB’s rulemaking to only its own internal operations, and stops the Board from making rules that affect workers, unions, or employers’ rights, including rules about unfair labor practices and union elections . It also changes how unfair labor practice disputes are handled: instead of the NLRB issuing complaints and deciding cases, an aggrieved person would take the case directly to federal court for relief, such as an injunction . The law revises the NLRB General Counsel’s role from prosecuting complaints to investigating allegations and providing written summaries, rather than moving cases through the Board’s own process . The NLRB must review its existing rules within six months and revise or repeal any that don’t fit these new limits .

• Who is affected: workers, unions, employers, and the NLRB.
• What changes: disputes over unfair labor practices go to federal court; the NLRB can’t set rules that affect people’s rights; the NLRB focuses on investigating and summarizing, not prosecuting and deciding cases .
• When: the NLRB has six months after the law takes effect to update its rules .