CASE PROCESSING PROCEDURES; EVIDENCE – Burden of Proof; Weight of Evidence; Presumptions and Inferences; Affirmative Defenses

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Although the charging party has the initial burden of showing a nexus between a protected right and the employer's actions, it does not have the burden of going forward with evidence at the outset of its case that would overcome affirmative defenses; pp. 3-4.