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Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law.  A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. 1. Hours and Wages: Paid time off was equivalent to “vacation leave” under Wage Payment and Collection Act.  Fisher v. PayFlex [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law. A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. 1. Contracts: Non-competition agreement did not prohibit broker from soliciting former employer’s insureds. Risk Ins. Group, Inc. v. Woods [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law. A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. 1. Whistleblowing: Employee fired for releasing confidential customer information to child protection agency stated claim for retaliation. Stapleton v. [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law. A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. 1. Public Employment: City reviewing personnel arbitration award could not be advised by member of firm that represented city in [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law.  A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. Benefit Plans: Employer’s contributions to retiree ERISA participants’ insurance premiums were not a permanently vested contractual right.  Windstream Corp. v. [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law. A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. 1. Occupational Safety: Laborer was engaged in a “repair” contemplated by Scaffold Law when he fell into steam manhole that [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law. A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. 1. Arbitration: National Railroad Adjustment Board’s order prohibited offset of railroad employee’s back pay award for wrongful termination.  Brotherhood of Locomotive [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law. A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. 1. Benefit Plans: Return of overpaid benefits was “appropriate equitable relief” under plan that established equitable lien by agreement. Thurber [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law. A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. Benefit Plans: ERISA plan administrator’s waiver of ground for denial of coverage by failing to assert it during administrative [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law. A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. 1. Discrimination: WMATA was entitled to summary judgment on black employee’s Title VII race discrimination claim stemming from suspension.  Dudley [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law. A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. 1. Unfair Labor Practices: President’s allegedly unauthorized recess appointments as barrier to NLRB’s authority to seek temporary injunction—Emergency stay [...]

Legal Current is the Corporate Communication blog of the legal businesses of Thomson Reuters.  Take a look at their top stories from the last week, click through to read the full posts : West LegalEdcenter Holds Corporate Whistleblower Forum : Fraud in companies is reportedly more likely to be discovered by insider tips than any other detection method, and with [...]

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This week the Thomson Reuters Legal Current corporate communications blog took a global perspective, highlighting our support for the Books for Africa project, this included a 5k event on our corporate campus in Minnesota. Check out the video below for a closer look at our efforts to make books available to those that need them around the world. [...]

To kick off your weekend, here is a  review of some of the most popular posts on our blog this week. LGBT in OT 2012: Will SCOTUS use “rational basis” or “intermediate scrutiny” on DOMA? Windsor is not the only DOMA ruling seeking an audience with the Supreme Court, however. For instance, Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management is a [...]

Westlaw Topical Highlights for Labor and Employment provides summaries of significant federal and state judicial decisions and legislative and administrative activities affecting labor and employment law.  A Westlaw subscription is required to access the documents linked from this page. 1. Benefit Plans: Structural conflict of interest of administrator led to arbitrary and capricious denial of benefits.  Raybourne v. Cigna [...]

To kick off your weekend, here is a  review of some of the most popular posts on our blog this week. HOT DOCS: SMOKERS NOT A “SUSPECT CLASS,” APPEALS COURT RULES The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that a smoker challenging city anti-smoking laws was not entitled to heightened constitutional protections because smokers [...]