After being reportedly close to nominating retired Jones Day partner Roger King for the role, the White House announced last Friday that President Donald Trump will nominate Peter Robb, a management-side labor and employment attorney from Vermont, as the new NLRB General Counsel. If confirmed, he will replace former President Barack Obama’s current appointee, Richard F. Griffin, Jr., whose term expires this November.

Since 1995, Robb has been with Downs Rachlin Martin, a Vermont-based law firm. Robb represents corporations in all aspects of labor and employment law. Robb has recently published articles critical of the NLRB’s rules designed to speed up the representation election process and of the Board’s recent decisions that have struck down common workplace rules. Robb has experience working for the NLRB. He worked as a NLRB field attorney and Chief Counsel to former Board Member Robert Hunter.

This announcement comes as the Board commences to change to a Republican-majority Board– the first time this has occurred in over a decade. As a result, we expect to see policy shifts in the next upcoming years.