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NLRB: Don't Stick Workers with Tax Bill on Lump Sum Back Pay

Posted On: Aug 25, 2014

Aug. 25, 2014 | NLRB | Reviving a decision it made when it lacked enough legal members to rile on worker-boss disputes, the NLRB again ruled that workers should not get stuck with the tax bill on back pay lump sums they win when triumphing against management labor lawbreaking… "The purpose of our tax compensation remedy is to ensure an employee who received lump-sum back pay rather than regular income is truly made whole." Full story here.