by Sandulli Grace Staff | Mar 7, 2012 | In Our Opinion..., Labor In The News
In a disappointing decision, the Supreme Judicial Court today ruled that the Quinn Bill Statute, M.G.L. c. 41, §108L, only requires a municipality that adopts it pay one half of the benefits enumerated in the statute, and that the other half is contingent on state...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Mar 5, 2012 | In Our Opinion..., Labor In The News
Today, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did NOT issue a decision in Adams v. Boston, the case considering whether municipalities may cut Quinn Bill benefits to officers. Obviously, no news is not news, but I write because I am asked about a decision at least...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Jan 12, 2012 | In Our Opinion..., Labor In The News
Once a police officer qualifies for Quinn Bill benefits, the benefits cannot be terminated if the officer is rehired or transferred after the Quinn Bill cut-off date of July 1, 2009. Under the recent Quinn Bill amendments police officers hired after July 1, 2009 are...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Dec 19, 2011 | In Our Opinion..., Labor In The News
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”; “the Board”) dropped its retaliation lawsuit against Boeing at the urging of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (“Machinists”) after it signed a contract with Boeing on Dec. 9, 2011. The NLRB...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Dec 12, 2011 | In Our Opinion..., Labor In The News
The Heart Law presumption, commonly called the “Heart Bill” presumes that a police officer’s heart ailment is work-related for purposes of accidental disability retirement, unless there is sufficient evidence to rebut it. In other words, if you have a heart ailment...
by Alan Shapiro | Dec 1, 2011 | In Our Opinion..., Labor In The News
Based on many recent Civil Service decisions and, even more poignantly, the courts’ reaction to those decisions, many of us concluded that challenging a bypass promotional case was about as promising as hitting a trifecta at your local race track. [1] That...
