Without a quorum of three, the NLRB can't issue case rulings or undertake rule-making and can do little more than oversee union elections.
The Supreme Court in 2010 made clear that the five-seat labor board requires a quorum of at least three members to issue case rulings.
One good thing about Thursday night hockey: it guarantees a quorum of ten observant men known in Hebrew as a minyan for evening prayers, the rabbinical candidate adds.
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In that way, the employer will have at least a 50 percent chance to win a lack of a quorum argument and avoid argument on the merits of the underlying decision.
The Democratic National Committee has filed a complaint with the FEC, but the lack of a quorum has stalled assessment of the complaint.
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The election has been postponed twice already because of a lack of quorum, as rival camps - the anti-Syrians and the pro-Syrians - try to hammer out an agreement outside parliament.
That is if Democrats take their place in the Senate and stop engaging in their own extra-legal legislative process of using quorum rules to achieve a sort of super-filibuster.
But before any vote takes place, the commissioners have to decide their definition of a quorum.
Mr Djindjic said early elections were possible if the expulsions did not work and parliament could not function due to the lack of a quorum.
During July and August the reinstated parliament twice tried to reconvene, but on each occasion failed to achieve a quorum as the majority of MPs boycotted the sessions.
But Mormons continue to believe, for example, in direct and ongoing divine revelation, which is why the church's president, currently Thomas Monson, is considered a prophet and his quorum of church leaders are deemed apostles.
The coming year will also be spent deciding what a quorum means in the world of the IWC.
Yet by focusing on the practical needs of such customers, attentive to their budget and time constraints, Quorum is tapping into a hidden market worth billions of dollars.
Ezra Klein has a good explanation of how the Republicans managed to get the vote through without a quorum that the AWOL senate Democrats had been preventing with their absence.
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Mr Gul withdrew his candidacy, and Mr Erdogan called early elections, after the constitutional court upheld opposition claims that a first round of balloting for the presidency had been invalid because parliament lacked a quorum.
Had one of them shown up in the senate, a quorum would have existed and the bill would have been passed.
Bwalya's opponents say that this left his committee without a quorum but Fifa has said that it approved the former African Footballer of the Year's plan to co-opt a number of people into the organisation.
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As a part of the budget repair bill put to the Senate by Gov. Walker, the collective bargaining elements were a part of a financial bill and, therefore, required a quorum in the senate before it could be put to a vote.
Without a quorum, the commission has been unable to act on a steady stream of complaints against independent political groups, which are pushing the legal envelope as others did four years ago.
Between speeches, there are quorum calls, time killers in which a Senate clerk calls the roll at the rate of one name every few minutes.
The company argued that, as the Senate was not technically in recess at the time of the appointments, the board had not been legally constituted and that a quorum did not exist.
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, Democratic senators have fled the state, leaving the State Senate unable to reach a quorum and consequently unable to vote on a budget proposal that would drastically reduce the power of unions in the state.
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