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Employer May Violate Employee’s Rights By Refusing To Provide Religious Accommodation To Grooming Policy

by Sandulli Grace Staff | Dec 4, 2008 | In Our Opinion...

Massachusetts law prohibits employers from requiring employees to violate a religious practice and therefore requires employers to provide a “reasonable accommodation” of their religious practice, so long as the accommodation does not create “undue hardship” for the...

Public Employee’s Stress, Anxiety Caused By Negative Publicity and Prisoner Harassment Is Covered Under Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Act, SJC Rules.

by Sandulli Grace Staff | Dec 1, 2008 | In Our Opinion...

Recently, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in Cosmo Bisazza’s Case, SJC-10183 (Nov. 20, 2008), that mental and emotional injuries are analyzed under the same standard as physical injuries under the Workers’ Compensation Act.  An employee is eligible for workers’...

Ralph the Plumber Loses Pension For Efforts To Remove Crap From Personnel File

by Sandulli Grace Staff | Nov 7, 2008 | In Our Opinion...

The recent decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Ralph J. Maher v. Retirement Board of Quincy , SJC-10182 (Nov. 6, 2008), serves as a stark cautionary tale to public employees, and as a reminder that courts take a hard line against misconduct that...

Sandulli Grace, PC Wins Unemployment For Officer Who Persuasively Denies

by Sandulli Grace Staff | Nov 3, 2008 | In Our Opinion..., Sandulli Grace In The News

The Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld a grant of unemployment benefits to a Boston Police Officer terminated for testing “positive” for cocaine on a hair test. In City of Boston v. George Downing , 06-P-1725 (Oct. 31, 2008), the Court ruled that the Division of...

MassCOP To Serve As Only Police Labor Rep On Police Training Commission

by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 22, 2008 | Labor In The News

Sandulli Grace, PC, congratulates its longtime client, the Massachusetts Coalition of Police, AFL-CIO (“MassCOP”), on its recent appointment as the only police labor representative to a special commission on local police training. Earlier this year, the Massachusetts...
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