The acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has been faulted by the agency’s inspector general for participating in discussions about the legality of Wal-Mart’s social media policy because he also had a financial interest in the companyabout $18,000 worth of Wal-Mart stock.
Inspector General David Berry found no evidence that Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon “acted with the intent to enrich himself,” but he also found that any NLRB case “involving Wal-Mart’s social media policy would have a direct and predictable effect on [Solomon's] financial interest.”
