Modifications to Role of National Labor Relations Board's Administrative Law Judges Including: Assignment of Administrative Law Judges as Settlement Judges; Discretion of Administrative Law Judges to Dispense With Briefs, to Hear Oral Argument in Lieu of Briefs, and to Issue Bench Decisions

Résumé

In light of the most recent shutdown of Agency operations due to the lack of appropriated funds, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is extending from December 29, 1995, until January 25, 1996, the deadline for filing comments in response to its recent proposal to make permanent, following expiration of the experimental period, the experimental modifications to its rules authorizing the use of settlement judges and providing administrative law judges (ALJs) with the discretion to dispense with briefs, to hear oral argument in lieu of briefs, and to issue bench decisions (see 60 FR 61679). In a related document published elsewhere in today's Federal Register, the NLRB is also extending the experimental period from January 31, 1996, until March 1, 1996, to allow the Board time to consider the comments.