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Safety professional was unionized position: arbitrator

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 9 2013

An employer has been unsuccessful in its bid to keep a newly-created "capital safety planner" position out of a union bargaining unit. The capital

NLRB defers to arbitration award denying backpay, declines request to revisit precedent

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2013

The NLRB General Counsel's latest effort to limit the effect of arbitration awards, even though they may be acceptable to the charged party against

Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 8 2013

The common law privacy right, or the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, arrived in Canada with Jones v. Tsige. That case arose when a bank employee

Connecticut appellate court reverses arbitration award that had reinstated nursing assistant, finding violation of public policy

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

Leoni Spence was a nursing assistant at Westport Health Care Center ("WHCC"), a residential nursing facility, from 2002 until her termination in

Is Jacob to Laban as Weiner is to the Original Talk Radio Network?

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

Jacob was in love with Rachel, but he had a problem. What could he offer Rachel's father, Laban, for her hand? Not having much, he offered to work

Reviewing CCMA arbitration awards: the proposed procedural amendments

  • DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
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  • South Africa
  • -
  • May 6 2013

Among other aims, the Labour Relations Amendment Bill, 2012 (LRAB) proposes streamlining the procedure to be followed when reviewing CCMA arbitration

Fourth Circuit upholds class action waiver clause under Concepcion

  • Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2013

Last year in its Concepcion decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the validity of waivers of class action rights contained in a commercial

Arbitration agreement in employee handbook enforceable, California Court of Appeal rules

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

An arbitration agreement contained in an employee handbook was not invalid simply because the employer could change the handbook in its discretion

Bad-faith work refusal complaint to MOL justified discipline reinstatement denied

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 30 2013

The work refusal provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act should not be abused, an arbitrator has effectively held in overturning an

One-sided arbitration agreement found unconscionable by California court

  • Ogletree Deakins
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2013

Compton v. American Management Services LLC, No. B236669 (March 19, 2013): A California Court of Appeal recently held that an arbitration agreement