The NLRB’s General Counsel’s Office, in an Advice Memo dated October 25, 2013 (pdf) and released to the public on August 7, 2014, has taken the position that “an enterprise that grows, processes, and retails medical marijuana” is an employer subject to the National Labor Relations Act provided it meets the Board’s monetary jurisdictional standards and is an employer engaged in commerce and that “the Board should assert jurisdiction over this type of business enterprise.”
Notably, the General Counsel’s office advocates the position that even though all of ...
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