US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after Donald Trump picks group’s lawyer for top job

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The American Labor Control Authority froze two cases against Apple days after Donald Trump’s nomination is a lawyer representing the technology group to be the Agency’s supreme legal official.

The National Council for Labor Relations submitted multiple complaints against the iPhone maker last year claiming that it interfered against the employees’ attempts to the organization, but suddenly retreated from two cases late last week, according to the documents that took place in the financial Times.

Last week, Trump nominated Crystal Carey, the partner in Morgan Lewis and Bokius, to be the NLRB general adviser. It is listed in the agency’s records as a Apple defense lawyer in both cases against Silicon Valley Tech Group.

Apple and NLRB refused to comment. Carrie is still an employee of Morgan Lewis pending the confirmation of the US Senate, and the legal office did not respond to the suspension requests. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Morgan Lewis, a specialist in administration’s representation of business disputes, has also been a behavior with Elon Musk’s Spacex and Amazon in their challenges against the agency.

Carrie’s nomination comes at a time when Trump is seeking to tighten his control of independent federal agencies, which is concerned about the erosion of raids and important democratic institutions.

Earlier this year, Trump, a member of the NLRB Democratic Board of Directors, launched Join Wilkox and the Agency’s general advisor, Jennifer Abruzio. Wilkox resumed this step, claiming it was illegal.

NLRB is supervised by conflicts at work, as individuals offer petitions against companies to their regional offices. If the International Energy Agency decides to take the action, it will bring the charges, which are then separated by the judges of the administrative law. Regional NLRB offices can pull complaints before or after they are brought to listening sessions.

Janneke Parrish and Cher Scarlett were two of the leading figures in the “Appletoo” movement for 2021, a violent reaction to the employee against the iPhone maker because of his dealings with the distinction of wages and harassment demands. Both women filed complaints with NLRB after leaving the company, claiming that they were dismissed due to employment organization efforts.

The agency supported its allegations when it filed complaints against Apple in 2024, accused of violating federal labor laws. She said that the iPhone maker may enter into discussions on wage equality rights and that Scarlett faced constructive separation to defend changes in the workplace.

Apple did not agree strongly on the claims, saying that it “always respects the rights of our employees to discuss their wages, hours and working conditions, and this is included in our business behavior policy, which all employees are trained annually.”

The group also made many changes after Appletoo, including removing employed items in the workplace in 2022.

Listening sessions were to be held before the Administrative Law Judge for the month of April and June in Parish and Cracklet cases, respectively. But NLRB late last week informed them that experiments should be postponed indefinitely pending a legal review by the agency’s main office.

The cases, provided by the Oakland Office, California NLRB, will be re -submitted to the NLRB, which resides and provides instructions on cases that may deal with complex or new legal theories.

The third former Apple employee with NLRB complaint against the company, Ashley Gojovic, said that her case remained on the right track to attend a hearing in August.

Parish said that Curry’s former Apple’s representation in her case made her “very doubtful” that she would receive fair treatment.

She said: “I fear the future of workers’ rights, and the ability of any worker to obtain their day in court under this administration.”

Participated in additional reports from Stephania Palma in Washington