My colleague, Chris Engler, joins us again with a post today about whether or not a jury trial is required for certain employment law claims. I’ll have a full recap of my presentations on data privacy in an upcoming post soon.
While many of us spent last weekend celebrating Columbus Day, our neighbors to the
In a decision that will be officially released on Tuesday, November 24th, the Connecticut Appellate Court has ruled that wrongful termination and breach of implied contract claims cannot be brought against the State of Connecticut due to the protections of sovereign i.jpg)
mmunity.
The case Ware v. State of Connecticut (download here), will be
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
Blog readers may remember my philosophy on Connecticut Supreme Court cases on employment discrimination — they take on perhaps even more significance than they might otherwise deserve because they happen so infrequently.
But even that philosophy has its limits as a case decided today shows. For most employers in Connecticut, this is one case that you can probably just
Amid all of the buzz regarding the union representation campaigns at Foxwoods, one argument keeps being floated about: tribal sovereignty.
A new article by Thomas Meiklejohn — one of the attorneys representing the UAW in its battle to represent workers at Foxwoods — in Spring edition of the Labor & Employment Law Quarterly (not
It’s been a little while since we last checked in with the unionization efforts at Foxwoods. The .jpg)
appeal process of the election of UAW has begun its slow arduous process so don’t expect to hear much on this for weeks or months at a time.
But in the meantime, various other groups have been vying
The NLRB’s hearing into Foxwoods’ objections to the union election continues this week. The latest issue to resurface is one that has surfaced before — tribal sovereignty. As I’ve said previously, I believe this is the type of "big picture" issue that may ultimately take this case up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Because the case
The first day of the hearing into some of Foxwoods’ objections to the November election began on Tuesday. Among the arguments being raised by Foxwoods in this particular hearing is the argument that certain tactics taken by the union were unfair and the ballots improper because they were not in Chinese. The UAW has