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Canadian Supreme Court Ruling Favors Wal-Mart Closure
Workplace Prof Blog —
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Recall the long legal saga about Wal-Marts decision to close its store in Jonquiere, Quebec after the store became unionized. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a suit brought by several of...1 day ago -
McKennirey on Reforming the Labour-Trade Linkage
Workplace Prof Blog —
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David Doorey (York Univ. (Canada)) writes to tell us that a big wig Canadian official, John McKennirey, who was Canadas point person on North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) bargaining and held various other senior positions in the Canadian...6 days ago -
GINA is Here: Complying With "HER" Regulations
HR Observations —
Authority: 411
Ok, I know that I took some liberties with "Geena" to match "GINA" in sound, but hey, it is Monday morning. GINA, or the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act went into effect on Saturday and as of that date employers must comply with Title II of the act. (Title I is a requirment for insurance companies to comply ...6 days ago -
More Support for Two-Member Board Decisions
Workplace Prof Blog —
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Add another court of appeal to the list of those supporting the NLRBs power to issue two-member decisions. This time its the Fourth Circuit in Narricot Indus. v. NLRB. That makes it four courts (1st, 2nd, 4th, and 7th Circuits)...1 week ago -
Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games: Indian Workers Allege Exploitation
Ekawaaz - One Voice - Many Issues : News Views and Reviews —
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Commonwealth but it’s a Un-Common-Wealth in India. Rampant exploitation of workers and contracts labors continues.“Where you go to the bathroom is where you eat and where you eat is also where you sleep” Condition of Workers, Working at 2010 Commonwealth Games VillageOur own people are shedding their own bloods ...1 week ago -
Work Email: "I Always Feel Like ... Somebodys Watching Me"
PrawfsBlawg —
Authority: 519
No, this post is not about the singer Rockwell or that annoying Geicocommercial, but about whether you should just assume that your bossmonitors your email. A new Wall Street Journal article suggests that is what exactly may be happening, but now there is some push back from employees and their advocates: Big ...1 week ago -
Widespread Employer Under-Reporting to OSHA
PrawfsBlawg —
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So finds a new astonishing and disturbing report released by the GAO this past Monday and reported on by the New York Times : Employersand workers routinely underreport work-related injuries and illnesses,calling into question the accuracy of nationwide data that theOccupational Safety and Health Administration ...1 week ago -
Drummonds on Reforming Labor Law by Reforming Labor Law Preemption Doctrine
Workplace Prof Blog —
Authority: 524
Henry Drummonds (Lewis & Clark) has provided me with a draft of his recent article in the Louisiana Law Review: Reforming Labor Law by Reforming Labor Law Preemption Doctrine to Allow the States to Make More Labor Relations Policy. From...1 week ago -
Employment Law: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)
JD Scoop —
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On November 21, 2009, additional requirements of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) go into effect. More on the legislation, approved by Congress last year, from JD Supra contributor Siegel, OConnor, ODonnell & Beck, P.C. : GINA applies to "private and state and local government ...1 week ago -
Canadian Views on EFCA
Workplace Prof Blog —
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Just Labour: A Journal of Work and Society, which is an electronic journal published by the York Universitys Centre for Research on Work and Society, has just published a collection of articles entitled, "A Canadian Perspective on the U.S. Employee...1 week ago -
Rare Injunction Granted In Public Sector Labor Law Case To Enjoin Improper Practice
Adjunct Law Prof Blog —
Authority: 478
Matter of PERB v. County of Monroe,___Misc.3d____(Albany Co. 2009), is a rare case where a state court judge issued an injunction pending the outcome of an Improper Practice that had been filed with PERB. The IP concerns an alleged effort...1 week ago -
A New Direction for the American Labor Movement?
Workplace Prof Blog —
Authority: 524
Nancy Folbre has a post on the Economix page of the New York Times today that investigates some interesting new developments within the American Labor Movement: On Oct. 27, the United Steelworkers announced an agreement with Mondragon International to move...1 week ago -
Advantages of a Trade Union
Win My Ex Back —
Authority: 167
One of the most vital decisions you will ever make in regards to your work would be whether or not you should join a trade union. Trade Unions are groups that aim to protect the rights of workers and to ensure that they are not exploited. Its no secret that some employers consider these organizations to be the scourge ...2 weeks ago -
Compelling public employee to answer potentially incriminating questions without formal immunity grant -- Certiorari Denied
Adjunct Law Prof Blog —
Authority: 478
Certiorari has been denied in a case in which the California Supreme Court held that a public employee may be compelled by threat of job discipline to answer potentially incriminating questions about the employees job performance, at least where the...2 weeks ago -
Of UPS And Rent-Seeking
The New Ledger Chequer-Board —
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An excellent video by Nick Gillespie : Needless to say, there is a lot of this kind of thing going on.2 weeks ago -
“Ricci v. DeStefano” Returns to Court
Firegeezer.com —
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Fourteen of the New Haven 20 would have been promoted if the city had acted on the test results as was originally planned.2 weeks ago -
Captive Audience Meetings Explored in WSJ
Workplace Prof Blog —
Authority: 524
I swear that I was interviewed for this story, but I think I made the reporters head hurt with talk of Garmon and Machinists labor preemption. Here, in any event, is a taste of "Unions Push Issues in State Capitals":...2 weeks ago -
Changes To EFCA On The Way??
Adjunct Law Prof Blog —
Authority: 478
Workplace Prof Blog ran an interesting Oct 10, 2009 story about Senator Bayhs comments on possible EFCA changes. Most interesting is that Bayh does not support card check for first contract arbitration-but does support a form of arbitration involving last...2 weeks ago -
Chicago alderman violated NLRA; city of Chicago vicariously liable
Adjunct Law Prof Blog —
Authority: 478
520 S. Michigan Ave v Fioretti, ___F.Supp. 2d___(N.D. Ill September 28, 2009) is an important labor case.Municipalities and elected officials frequently inject themselves into local labor disputes. In this instance, the City of Chicago was vicariously responsible for a city...2 weeks ago -
Labor Market Flexibility and Economic Growth
Workplace Prof Blog —
Authority: 524
Alvaro Santos (Georgetown) has just published (Virginia Journal of Int’l L.) Labor Flexibility, Legal Reform, and Economic Development. Heres a summary: The current global financial crisis has provoked intense criticism of the regulatory framework for financial markets. Financial market flexibility,...3 weeks ago
