Like most other federal agencies, the NLRB has been shut down to the lapse of appropriated funding. This obviously has affected a number of parties who were engaged in proceedings before the NLRB at the time of the shutdown. Given that this is not the first time that this event has occurred, the NLRB has set forth a shutdown plan which is posted on its website: www.nlrb.gov. In essence except for emergency orders, the NLRB is on total shutdown until the rest of the government starts up, but when that will be, at this point, no one knows.