by Sandulli Grace Staff | Nov 12, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
In LeMaitre vs. Mass. Turnpike Authority (November 5, 2007) [http://socialaw.org/slip.htm?cid=17603&sid=119], the Appeals Court ruled that a nonunion civil engineer is entitled to sick leave buyback under the public employer’s buyback policy in place for the...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 14, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
A federal trial court in Georgia has ruled that the police department violated the First Amendment when its internal affairs division inquired the union’s alleged involvement in firing the current Chief, where such alleged off-duty activities had no relation to the...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 12, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
In Olsen v. Teachers Retirement Board (Oct. 9, 2007), the Brockton Education Association and the Brockton school committee agreed to increase the percentage of health insurance premiums paid by employees by five percent in exchange for a stipend paid to employees...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 8, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
In the latest decision concerning the application of Fair Labor Standards Act to Massachusetts public safety officers, Judge Stearns of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled on which payments must be added to the overtime rate; whether...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 5, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
On September 27, 2007, Governor Patrick signed legislation that will require covered employers to recognize a union based on a showing that a majority of employees want to form a union. In doing so, Massachusetts joined a handful of states that have outpaced the U.S....
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Oct 1, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
SJC Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (later a U.S. Supreme Court Justice) once famously quipped in an 1892 case by a terminated New Bedford police officer against the Mayor: “The petitioner may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional...