On the heels of his firing of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, Pres. Donald Trump also

President Donald Trump fired former President Joe Biden’s National Labor Relations Board chairwoman, Gwynne Wilcox, and the labor board’s general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo. It is illegal for a president to remove a board member unless there is evidence of negligence of duty or malfeasance.

The firings are among the latest efforts by Trump to remove top federal officials since taking office about a week ago.

As part of the flurry of executive actions taken during the first week of his administration, President Donald Trump has terminated the

President Donald Trump’s executive orders are already reshaping the Department of Labor and OSHA fines are increasing.

President Donald Trump purged two National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) leaders known for supporting worker rights on Tuesday, signaling a sharp re-orientation of federal law enforcement towards a management-friendly approach favored by business executives and supporters like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

In a note to clients Tuesday, Littler Mendelson called the dismissal of Gwynne Wilcox "literally unprecedented."

President Trump fired two Democratic EEOC commissioners and an NLRB board member, hobbling two independent agencies that are tasked with enforcing worker protections.

The move was criticized as illegal by congressional Democrats and could result in backlogs for the labor board, which now lacks a quorum.

Robert F. Kennedy’s first confirmation hearing Wednesday to become secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services was quickly interrupted by protesters over the Trump nominee’s vaccine positions. During his opening remarks, Kennedy said under oath that he is “not anti-vaccine”—but people standing in the back of the room weren’t convinced.

After dismissing 17 independent inspectors general earlier, Trump fired a half dozen National Labor Relations Board and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials in a bid make them ideologically compatible.