President Biden named Lauren McFerran as chairman of the National Labor Relations board. McFerran has served on the board since December 2014. Separately, Biden fired the NLRB’s general counsel, according to news reports.

In a statement, McFerran said “I look forward to this new chapter in the board’s work, redoubling our efforts to serve the act’s goals — ‘encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and … protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association.’”

Her term expires in December 2024.

Prior to serving on the NLRB, McFerran was chief labor counsel for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. She also previously served the committee as deputy staff director under former Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.

The NLRB also comprises John Ring, who previously served as chairman; Marvin Kaplan; and William Emanuel. One board member seat is vacant.

Last February, the NLRB had released a final rule covering joint employment status, reversing the 2015 Browning-Ferris ruling by the Obama-era NLRB.

Biden also fired NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb, a Trump appointee, after Robb refused a request to resign, Politico reported.