NLRB General Counsel's Office Rolls Medical Marijuana Industry and Processing Employees Into NLRB's Jurisdiction | Practical Law
The Office of General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released an advice memorandum recommending that an NLRB regional office investigate unfair labor practice (ULP) charges against Wellness Connection of Maine, an employer involved in the marijuana industry after concluding that it and a portion of its employees should be covered by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The Division of Advice found that the NLRB should assert jurisdiction over employers in this industry that meet the NLRB's commerce-based jurisdictional standards and their marijuana processing assistants, as distinguished from their agricultural workers.