Yvette Hatfield Named Assistant General Counsel in Division of Operations-Management

Yvette Hatfield Named Assistant General Counsel in Division of Operations-Management
National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard F. Griffin, Jr. announced the appointment of Deputy Assistant General Counsel Yvette C. Hatfield as Assistant General Counsel in the Division of Operations-Management of the Office of the General Counsel in Washington.
In her new position, Ms. Hatfield will assist the General Counsel in managing the 26 Regional Offices of the NLRB and providing programmatic support for the national enforcement and administration of the National Labor Relations Act. Prior to her promotion, Ms. Hatfield served as a Deputy Assistant General Counsel in the Division of Operations-Management working in District 1 which currently covers 8 Regional Offices.
Ms. Hatfield began working at the Agency in 1988 as a field attorney in the Los Angeles Regional Office, Region 21. In 1998, she transferred in the Office of Appeals of the Office of the General Counsel Washington, D.C. as an attorney-advisor. She joined the Division of Operations-Management staff when she was promoted to the Deputy Assistant General Counsel position in 2000.
Ms. Hatfield was awarded her bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1974 and her legal degree from the Villanova University, School of Law in 1983. She worked as a law clerk in the Philadelphia Municipal Court and the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and was in private practice before she began her career with the NLRB.
The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency vested with the power to safeguard employee rights to organize and to determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative. The agency also acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions.
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