Last Friday, lawyers representing two government officials petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments over whether former a 2002 state decision to layoff only union personnel violated those employee’s constitutional rights.
Back in June 2013, you may recall that the Second Circuit ruled that such layoffs did violate the right of association. I’ve
On Friday, the Second Circuit issued an important decision in the long-running battle between the state unions and the government about whether layoffs of only union personnel violated the First Amendment.
I’ve previously discussed the background of this case (and my very early involvement in it) in various posts.
The Second Circuit not only reversed
The Dog Days of Summer are officially here.
Which means slow news items in the employment law area. Oh sure, there’s the labor unions rewriting their bylaws to get the concession package passed (the equivalent of a mulligan in the Masters). But with Connecticut’s legislature done for the year and the courts
Imagine there’s no …..
A few years ago it would have been unfathomable to be considering life in Connecticut without a Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. After all, it is a necessary step in filing a discrimination complaint in this state.
Imagining a Connecticut without the CHRO? No way.
But suddenly, dramatically,
With rejection of a union concession package now appearing likely in news stories this morning, it seems probable that layoffs are around the corner. Notably, a lawsuit arising from a prior state layoff is still kicking around over eight years later. I discussed this back in October 2010 and noted that the parties had
At last night’s gubernatorial debate, the issue of potential layoffs of state union workers was a hot topic of conversation. (See CT News Junkie for a more detailed report.) Each candidate indicated that layoffs weren’t ruled out if elected.
That’s all very well and good, but none of them have mentioned how a
The Connecticut Supreme Court, in a decision to be officially released next week, ruled Wednesday th.jpg)
at several state workers can proceed with their claims that they were fired for political reasons in January 2003.
The decision in Conboy v. State of Connecticut (download here), arises from the state’s decision in early 2003