REMEDIES FOR UNFAIR PRACTICES; MISCELLANEOUS REMEDIAL PROVISIONS – Attorneys Fees and Costs

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The Board affirmed the ALJ’s conclusion that a make-whole award for the unions must include legal expenses because the unions would not have incurred the costs of defending against the lawsuit absent the employer’s unlawful conduct, viz. interfering with protected rights by pursuing a lawsuit seeking to ban union representatives from various non-work areas of its property. Calculating such expense based on the lodestar rate is consistent with Board precedent. The unions were to have an opportunity to establish in compliance proceedings that they suffered losses from the employer’s various proven unlawful conduct. The Board denied the unions’ request for legal fees and costs as sanctions. (pp. 63-67.)