Posted Tuesday May 6, 2008, 1:26 am, Over one day old
You would think that a top law firm with one of the best labor and employment law groups in the country would know better than this (via Above The Law): This departure memo, sent by an associate leaving the San...
Read Insensitive Employer of the Week: Paul Hastings (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 6, 2008, 1:26 am, Over one day old
There's enough here for a TV series: Walter Connolly Jr., from the employment law firm Connolly, Rodgers & Scharman, has filed a federal sexual and religious lawsuit on behalf of Simone Calvas, a former 19th District Court female employee, against...
Read Judge Sued Again for Religious and Sex Discrimination (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 6, 2008, 1:26 am, Over one day old
The New Jersey Supreme Court has recently held in State v. Reid (April 21, 2008) that an employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy in her internet subscriber identity. The case was a criminal one in which the employee was...
Read Employee Privacy Interest In Internet Address (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 6, 2008, 1:26 am, Over one day old
According to the New York Times, workers at a GM plant in Fairfax, Kansas have gone on strike. The plant in Fairfax, Kansas, employs about 1,800 hourly workers who walked out at 9 a.m. CDT Monday morning. The strike came...
Read UAW Strike at Kansas General Motors plant (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 6, 2008, 1:26 am, Over one day old
I don't have official word yet, but it appears that Robert Battista, former Chairman of the NLRB, has asked President Bush to withdraw his nomination for a new term on the Board. Battista apparently has accepted a position in Littler...
Read Battista Withdraws Nomination (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 6, 2008, 1:26 am, Over one day old
So what do you do when the equal employment opportunity face of your university writes an anti-gay diatribe in the local press. At least, you can't say, per Garcetti, that it is pursuant to her official duties! Here's the story...
Read Free Speech Rights of the EEO Anti-Gay Rights University Officer (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 6, 2008, 1:26 am, Over one day old
The rage of the defense bar, that is. The National Law Journal reports (subscription required): Congress and the U.S. Department of Labor are taking a hard look at so-called hidden fees in 401k retirement plans ? but not as hard...
Read Hidden 401K Fee Suits All the Rage (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 6, 2008, 1:26 am, Over one day old
The Department of Labor's Employe Benefits Security Administration will conduct a free webcast to help employers and plan administrators understand and comply with the Form 5500 Series reporting requirements under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The webcast will...
Read DOL Webcast on Form 5500 Reporting Requirements (Links)
Posted Tuesday May 6, 2008, 1:26 am, Over one day old
Articles Paul M. Secunda (left), Reflections on the Technicolor Right to Association in American Labor and Employment Law, 96 Kentucky L.J. 343 (2007-08). Matthew T. Bodie (second), Workers, Information, and Corporate Combinations: The Case for Nonbinding Employee Referenda in Transformative...
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Posted Tuesday May 6, 2008, 1:26 am, Over one day old
Lisa Bingham (Indiana - Bloomington School of Public & Environmental Affairs) (photo above), Tina Nabatchi (Syracuse), Jeffrey Senger (Dep't Justice), and Michael Jackman (Indiana - Bloomington School of Public & Environmental Affairs) have just posted on SSRN their article Dispute...
Read Federal Litigation v. ADR (Links)