by John Becker | Aug 2, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
In a surprisingly anti-employer decision, the Civil Service Commission enforced a preference for formerly disabled retirees at the expense of existing employees ready, willing and able to immediately accept a promotion appointment. In Faggiano, Jones & Cappuccio...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Jul 26, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
Riding the media tidal wave of hostility toward public safety employees receiving workers compensation-type benefits, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts has ruled that a police dispatcher permanently disabled from her job as a result of unsolicited roughhousing at...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Jul 3, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
Most employees, public and private, are entitled to overtime compensation under the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for every hour actually worked beyond 40 hours in a seven-day period. As another needless reminder of the second-class status of police officers and...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Jul 2, 2008 | In Our Opinion..., Sandulli Grace In The News
Tired of the ongoing, and disingenuous, attacks on having police officers perform paid details? So is Hugh Cameron, President of the Massachusetts Coalition of Police, a Sandulli Grace client since its formation. In a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe,...
by John Becker | Jul 2, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
At first glance, the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in Sheriff of Suffolk County v. Jail Officers and Employees (http://socialaw.org/slip.htm?cid=18288&sid=120, decided June 23, 2008), which upholds an arbitrator’s reinstatement of a public employee, is...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Jun 13, 2008 | In Our Opinion...
An arbitrator has ruled that the Peabody Police Chief violated the past practice clause of a collective bargaining agreement and his own department rule when he unreasonably denied the request of a local union official to work as a reserve officer in another town....
