Chevron Overruled: What It Means for Labor Law

For four decades, the Chevron doctrine required federal courts to defer to administrative agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous or broad statutes. On June 28, the US Supreme Court decided Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce, overruling the Chevron doctrine. This means that courts must now interpret federal statutes generally without deference to agency interpretations. Instead, courts will base their interpretations using standard statutory interpretation tools, including plain language and congressional intent, as they do in all other cases involving federal statutes, supplemented by applying the “guidance” principles under Skidmore v. Swift.

Any organization that is subject to federal regulation will likely be affected by this Supreme Court decision, but what does it mean for the National Labor Relations Act and labor law specifically? Please join lawyers from our labor-management relations team, including a former National Labor Relations Board member, to discuss the implications the ruling may have in the labor space and what it means for employers.

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