Sandler to serve on Merit Employee Relations Board

The  Delaware Senate unanimously approved Gov. Jack Markell’s nomination of attorney Sheldon N. Sandler for a three-year term on the Delaware Merit Employee Relations Board (“MERB”).

The five-member MERB is the final step in the administrative process for grievances alleging a misapplication of the Delaware Merit Rules, which govern all classified State of Delaware employees who are not covered by union collective bargaining agreements.  Sandler will serve as a management representative from New Castle County. The MERB conducts hearings and has the authority to grant remedial relief.

Sandler has been practicing labor and employment law since the early 1970s, and he has been recognized repeatedly in publications such as Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Who’s Who Legal, The Best Lawyers In America® and Delaware Super Lawyers.

Sandler was the first Delaware lawyer inducted as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Election as a Fellow is described as “the highest recognition by one’s colleagues of sustained outstanding performance in the profession, exemplifying integrity, dedication and excellence.”

Sandler is Of Counsel in Young Conaway’s Labor and Employment Section. In addition to performing significant amounts of pro bono work, he conducts an active mediation and arbitration practice in the area of labor and employment law and has testified as an expert witness on Delaware law.