US Supreme Court rejects Macy's challenge vs compensating fired strikers

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge by Macy's to a National Labor Relations Board ​decision requiring the retailer to compensate employees who the company fired in a case in which the company sought ‌to roll back the agency's power to order such action. 

Macy's had appealed, a lower court's decision upholding the labor board's action.

Macy's had asked the justices to resolve a split among federal appeals courts over the NLRB's authority to require that companies found to have illegally fired employees make those workers whole for any related financial losses.

The NLRB ​is facing dozens of cases across the United States challenging its structure and in-house enforcement proceedings, as well as the agency's longstanding ​protections against presidential interference in its decisions.

-Reuters