by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 15, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently highlighted the difficulty a public employee applying for accidental disability retirement faces when trying to establish a mental disability was caused by work. Fender v. CRAB, 07-P-0621 (Oct. 3, 2008). To establish...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 9, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
Police officers and firefighters injured in the performance of their jobs are entitled to “leave without loss of pay” under G.L. c.41, §111F. For full-time public safety officers, the amount of wages paid during their period of disability is relatively easy to...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 8, 2008 | Sandulli Grace In The News
Sandulli Grace, PC founder Joe Sandulli has been awarded the 2008 Cushing-Gavin Award for Union Attorneys, the highest honor bestowed upon members of the New England labor management community. He will receive the award at the Labor Guild’s 42nd Annual Awards dinner...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 8, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
Massachusetts Arbitrator Mary Ellen Shea ruled that the City of North Adams is required to offer certain overtime shifts first to full-time police officers, under a collective bargaining agreement between the City and the North Adams Police Union, Massachusetts...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 8, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
The Massachusetts Appeals Court has waded into the seemingly never-ending internal strife in the Town of Stoughton Police Department. In the case of Cachopa v. Town of Stoughton, #07-P-1247 (Sept. 15, 2008), the Court interpreted the little-used legal theory of...
