Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company v. National Labor Relations Board

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• without the support of other evidence, job description is not determinative of statutory supervisory status
• “One could imagine situations where to ... wait [for approval of upper management] would be to permit a relatively simple problem [to] escalate into a real emergency.... No Company regulation prescribes procrastination in such circumstances.”
• \To be responsible is to be answerable for the discharge of a duty or obligation.\ (quoting Ohio Power Co. v. NLRB, 176 F.2d 385, 387 (6th Cir. 1949))
• \One co uld imagine situations where to ... wait [for approval of upper management] would be to permit a relatively simple problem [to] escalate into a real emergency.... No Company regulation prescribes procrastination in such circumstances.\

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