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Showing posts with label employment law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label employment law. Show all posts
Thursday, May 9, 2024

Conference on workplace mobbing posts presenters

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Niagara Falls, N.Y. Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Picryl The Niagara Conferenc...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

High court construes tenure contract to constrain faculty salary cuts at Tufts medical school

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TUSM Arnold Wing, 2012, Boston John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Academic freedom won a rare court victory last week when the Mas...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Florida A&M moves to fire Latina law prof who spoke on public concern; Hispanic law students resist

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You may review and sign on to a letter of the FAMU Hispanic American Law Student Association opposing Reyes's termination here.   Prof. ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Conference on Workplace Mobbing to convene in July, aims to establish mobbing as discrete field of study

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PLEASE JOIN US IN NIAGARA IN JULY, AND SPREAD THE WORD TO YOUR NETWORKS! The first Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing will convene Jul...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Malaysian court upholds civil liability for security firm after employee-bodyguard shot, killed own client

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With attenuated liability theories arising from contemporary gun violence proliferating—in lawsuits against parents , schools , sellers , a...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Governor's proposed pay hikes evince typical bureaucratic ignorance of how working people earn

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Governor Dan McKee (Kenneth C. Zirkel CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia ) Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee's proposal for huge increases to sta...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Shoe on other foot as US claims sovereign immunity in foreign court for firing Malaysian embassy worker

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The U.S. Embassy in KL commemorates flight MH17 in 2014. (Embassy photo, public domain, via Flickr ) Malaysian courts have been wrestling w...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Grubhub drivers signed away right to sue, court rules

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Haydn Blackey via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Grubhub drivers signed away their right to sue on unfair wage claims, the Massachusetts Supreme Judic...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

As America, France share Enlightenment roots, why have worker rights so diverged? Or have they?

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Thomas D. Aaron Wazlavek, Esq. has published an article in comparative labor law: The Pond Separates Cultures but Not Values: A Comparativ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Employer may not fire for personnel rebuttal, high court holds, even though statute provides no remedy

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Pixy.org CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Reversing a problematic and divided intermediate appellate court decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Cour...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Police officer delivering lunch was off the job for immunity, injured fellow on the job for worker comp

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Pixabay by Ronald Plett ( license ) A personal injury claim against a police officer's automobile insurer highlights the different sco...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

So now you care about academic mobbing

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Angry Mob by Robert Couse-Baker, CC BY 2.0 Princeton politics professor Keith E. Whittington ( on the blog ) has a wisely worded op-ed , o...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Netflix's 'The Chair' satirizes academic politics with troubling truths of contemporary campus culture

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Netflix's The Chair is an enjoyable six-episode sit com on the absurdity of academic politics in American higher education today.  The ...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

How many people suffer while state unemployment office shuffles paper, issues baseless denials?

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I wrote in 2020 about the pay cuts foisted on faculty and staff at UMass Dartmouth.  We're a union shop, which is weird for university ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Divided court allows employee firing for exercising statutory right to supplement personnel record

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Pixy.org CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 An at-will employee may be fired for rebutting an adverse employment action, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held ...