Court Opinion

ID: 9449688
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:19:40.151007+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:56.655225
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MATTHES, Circuit Judge
(dissenting in part).
Contrary to the holding of the opinion, I am not persuaded that the Board is authorized under Section 10(c) of the Act to award interest on the amount that may be due as back pay to the discharged employees. Certainly the failure of the Board to grant interest on such monetary awards for approximately 26 years prior to Isis Plumbing & Heating Co., 138 *340N.L.R.B. 716 (1962), does not in and of itself constitute an insurmountable barrier to a departure from such a policy. However, as stated so aptly by the dissent in Isis, 138 N.L.R.B. at 723-724:
“We believe that when a provision such as Section 10(c) of the Act has received such a long and consistent interpretation by this Board and the courts, with apparent congressional and judicial approval, it has become part of the administrative practice which, if it is to be changed, should now be changed by the Congress— and by the Congress alone.”
In all other respects I concur in the opinion.