We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo
  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 20

Labour update: centrally assigned principals

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 9 2010

In a previous Education Law News (Winter 2007), Robert W. Weir reported on the status of the centrally assigned principal

First contract interest arbitration now applies to Illinois non-public safety employees

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 25 2009

On August 18, 2009, Governor Pat Quinn signed into law what is arguably one of the most significant changes to Illinois public sector labor relations since the advent of interest arbitration for local public safety personnel in 1986

Tippling in the barrel of untruth: how not to handle a termination

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 28 2010

Four years ago in Ottawa, the Federal Government nipped a nascent spending scandal in the bud when it fired two Public Works employees, Douglas Tipple and David Rotor

NLRB roundup Part 1: Obama Board continues apace reversing Bush Board decisions, expanding labor laws

  • Haynes and Boone LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 14 2011

Since our last summary, the Obama Board has taken significant steps to further outgoing Chairman Liebman’s stated goal of bringing the Board “back to life after a long period of dormancy”

Labranch v. Treasury Board

  • Rubin Thomlinson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 25 2011

A recent adjudication decision, LaBranch v. Treasury Board (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade), gives employers some insight into their responsibility to investigate incidents of harassment andor discrimination in the workplace where the employee does not file an official workplace complaint, but instead communicates to the employer in a more general way, her concerns about experiencing harassment and discrimination in the workplace

Changes coming soon to the CHRO

  • McCarter & English LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 7 2011

Effective October 1, 2011, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities will implement changes to the procedures for processing complaints as required by Public Act No. 11-237

Limits to supervision time is a “hard” 80-minute cap, for all teachers

  • Miller Thomson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 30 2012

In a recent arbitral decision, the issue was whether a teacher who has additional responsibilities as a "Teacher in Charge" or "Teacher Administrative Assistant," can be asked to provide more than the 80 minutes per five-day instructional cycle of supervision time allowed under the collective agreement

Doing business in Israel

  • Rodyk & Davidson LLP
  • -
  • Israel, Singapore
  • -
  • April 13 2012

The State of Israel is a Western-style modern democracy in the Middle East located along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea

K 12 education alerts: June 2011 - June 2012

  • Franczek Radelet PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 1 2012

On Monday, June 13, 2011, Governor Quinn signed into law Senate Bill 7, the sweeping education reform bill that is the product of months of negotiations between a broad group of stakeholders that included representatives from both management and labor

HRTO enforces one year timeline to bring application: is this good news for employers?

  • Blaney McMurtry LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 15 2012

A recent decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has clarified the policy of the Tribunal when dealing with the issue of timeliness