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Teamsters
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Global Workplace Insider
The Duty to Mitigate and its Impact on Damages
By Russell Kott
Employer clients often ask during a wrongful or constructive dismissal lawsuit what damages may be awarded. One relevant consideration is the common law duty to mitigate. A wrongfully dismissed employee…
Pennsylvania Family Law
The Defined Benefit Pension Crisis Is Here And Very Real
This is not a major news story for most Americans, but if you participate in a defined benefit retirement plan, one where you are due to receive regular payments of…
Supplemental Conditions
Indicted Union Representatives Try Again to Revive Enmons
The Boston Globe reports that the Massachusetts AFL-CIO has filed a friend of the court brief seeking to have the indictment of five members of the Teamsters Union in Boston…
Labor & Collective Bargaining
Teamsters Local Pension Fund Latest to Request Reduction in Vested Member Benefits
By Howard M. Bloom, Philip B. Rosen, Jackson Lewis P.C.
Citing the threat of future insolvency, a New Jersey Teamsters Local Pension Fund has applied to the U.S. Treasury Department for permission to reduce by 40 percent the vested member…
Labor Relations Today
@LRToday Morning Round-Up: October 24, 2013
By Cary Burke
ALJ Holds That Bargaining Cannot Be Conditioned On Noel Canning: Abigail Rubenstein of Law360 ($$) writes that this week, a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge ruled that Professional Transportation, Inc.…
Employer Labor Relations
Do As We Say, Not As We Do: Union Required to Post Notices That It Will Not Union Bust
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Howard M. Wexler, Esq. While it is a daily occurrence for an employer to get blasted in the media for supposedly engaging in so called “union busting,” a recent case…
Legal Profession Blog
The ABA, The Teamsters Union, And The Republic Of Uganda
In researching a question relating to qualifications to sit for the Illinois Bar examination, I came across a dissent on the requirement that an applicant be a graduate of an ABA-approved…
Labor Law Prof Blog
A New Face for Labor
Bill Herbert sends us this link to the NYT story Redefining the Union Boss:Troublemaker, better known as Sandy Pope, is the first woman to run for the presidency of the…
New Jersey Public Safety Officers Law Blog
East Windsor Employees Win Paycheck Fight In Court
As reported by nj.com, East Windsor Township employees fighting to claim an extra paycheck from 2009 emerged victorious this week when an appellate court ruled that the township must…
Supreme Court Update
Christian Legal Society v. Hastings College of The Law (08-1371), Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd. (08-1191), Granite Rock Co. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (08-1214) and Magwood v. Patterson (09-158)
By Kim Rinehart
As we continue to work our way through the Court's final decisions of the Term, this Update will cover Christian Legal Society v. Hastings College of The Law (08-1371), finding…