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A day after the Senate returned from its summer recess, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a hearing to discuss the nomination of former recess appointee Sharon Block to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board. President Obama announced his intent to re-nominate Block to the Board on July 10, 2014. Block previously served as a member of the Board from January 2012 – when the President seated her and two other members via recess appointment – until the summer of 2013, when her nomination was withdrawn as part of a Senate deal to allow votes on the five current NLRB members. In June of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court in Noel Canning held that Block's recess appointment was invalid. Continue reading this entry at Littler's Workplace Policy Update.