Marshall Field & Co. v. National Labor Relations Board

In this case the Labor Board ordered petitioner to compensate certain of its employees for loss of pay suffered as a result of their discriminatory discharge in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. Paragraph 2 (b) of the order directed that petitioner “make whole” the employees by payment to them of a sum “equal to that which they would normally have earned as wages” during the specified period, less their “net earnings” during the period (34 N. L. R. B. 1, 21). On consent of the parties, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit enforced the other provisions of the…