Amendment to Memorandum Describing the Authority and Assigned Responsibilities of the General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority
Key claim: The Federal Labor Relations Authority is putting back the old wording of one section of its General Counsel authority memo after a court threw out a March 2026 change, while leaving a separate change to another section untouched.
Abstract
(Rule · Federal Labor Relations Authority) The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) publishes this document to implement the vacatur of Section I.C. of the amendment to Appendix B–titled “Memorandum Describing the Authority and Assigned Responsibilities of the General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority”–published March 24, 2026 (Memo Amendment). The Memo Amendment also changed Section III of Appendix B, but that change was not vacated and is not affected by this final rule. This document reinstates the wording of Section I.C. of Appendix B as it appeared before the Memo Amendment took effect.
Why this matters
The FLRA General Counsel’s assigned responsibilities set the baseline for how unfair labor practice complaints and other federal-sector labor cases get investigated and prosecuted, so changes to the authority memo ripple into every federal bargaining unit. This action is a narrow housekeeping restoration — complying with a court vacatur by putting the prior § I.C. text back — rather than a substantive policy shift, but it signals that courts are actively policing recent changes to GC authority. The parallel decision to leave a different amended section untouched means the memo is now a patchwork of old and new language.