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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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Richard A. Bales & Jason N.W. Plowman (photo above), Compulsory Arbitration as Part of a Broader Employment Dispute Resolution Process: The Anheuser-Busch Example (169). Steven L. Schooner & Danielle Conway-Jones, Emerging Policy and Practice Issues (146). Nathan B. Oman (photo…
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Sue Irion, The [Un]Constitutionality of the NLRA’s Religious Accomodation Provision (96). Laura J. Cooper, Mario Bognano, & Stephen F. Befort, How and Why Labor Arbitrators Decide Discipline and Discharge Cases: An Empirical Examination (93). Raja Raghunath (photo above), Stacking the…
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When at a door, train, bus, or anything else, people going out exit before anyone else goes in.
This is a simple process rule. In the example, it makes good sense. You can’t get in a train if people have not left the train yet. If it’s full, you’re not getting …
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