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Porridge on toast and other workplace investigation tales from Saskatchewan

  • Rubin Thomlinson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
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  • May 21 2013

To prepare, Chris and I reviewed a number of interesting workplace investigation cases that have been decided in Saskatchewan, but have principles

U.S. Chamber of Commerce files amicus brief on arbitration issues in key California Supreme Court case

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 20 2013

In the wake of AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, the California Supreme Court granted review in three cases involving significant arbitration issues

Mind games: distinguishing between mood problems and mental disorders when disciplining employees

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 15 2013

It is trite law that employers cannot discriminate against employees based on mental disabilities. The broad interpretation that courts and

Substantive fairness overcomes elements of procedural unconscionability in mandatory arbitration agreement

  • Fenwick & West LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

In yet another case addressing the enforceability of mandatory arbitration agreements in California, a Southern California federal district court in

Postscript: to compel under the FAA or the MAA? That is the question . . . With an answer

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

In a previous post, I argued that in order to compel arbitration in Minnesota, an employer must attempt to come within the purview of the Federal

Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • 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

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
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  • 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

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

Fourth Circuit upholds class action waiver clause under Concepcion

  • Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
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  • 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
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  • 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