Washington,
D.C. – National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Peter B. Robb announced
the appointment of Richard A. Bock as Associate General Counsel, Division of
Advice. Mr. Bock succeeds Jayme L. Sophir, who will be retiring from the
position at the end of July after more than 30 years of dedicated service to
the Agency. The Division of Advice provides guidance to the Agency’s
Regional Offices regarding difficult and novel issues arising in the processing
of unfair labor practice charges and coordinates the initiation and litigation
of injunction proceedings in federal court under Section 10(j) and (l) of the
National Labor Relations Act.
Ms.
Sophir joined the Division of Advice in 1988 after several years in private
practice. She became a supervisor in 1997, the Regional Advice Branch
Chief in 2009, and the Deputy Associate General Counsel in 2012. In 2017,
she was appointed to head the NLRB’s Division of Advice as Associate General
Counsel.
According
to General Counsel Peter Robb, “Ms. Sophir has been providing me and my
predecessors with invaluable advice on important issues and never hesitates to
give me her honest appraisal of those issues. Her sense of humor and
dedication have been an inspiration to many. She will be greatly missed
and I thank her for her service.”
Mr.
Bock joined the Agency in 1996 as a field attorney in Region 29, Brooklyn.
He became a supervisor there in 2008 before being promoted to Deputy
Assistant General Counsel in the Agency’s Division of Operations-Management in
2012. He subsequently served as Assistant General Counsel in
Operations-Management, Deputy Associate General Counsel in the Division of Legal
Counsel, and as Deputy Associate General Counsel in
Operations-Management.
“Richard
brings a wealth of experience to this position, given his prior positions in
Headquarters and in the field,” added General Counsel Robb. “I am looking
forward to working with him in his new capacity.”
Established
in 1935, the National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency
that protects employers and employees from unfair labor practices, and protects
the right of private sector employees to join together, with or without a
union, to improve wages, benefits and working conditions. The NLRB
conducts hundreds of workplace elections and investigates thousands of unfair
labor practice charges each year.
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