by Alan Shapiro | Apr 3, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
Recently, as you can see in this news article, Circuit City decided to fire thousands of trained, competent employees and replace them with lower-paid people off the streets. Why? Because they legally can.Here is an example of why workers need unions. These Circuit...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Mar 14, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
In Parker v. Town of North Brookfield, No. 06-P-167 (February 15, 2007), the Massachusetts Court of Appeals upheld a public employer’s termination of an at-will employee who exercised her statutory right to health care benefits. The town terminated the employee purely...
by Amy Laura Davidson | Feb 26, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
In this Brockton Arbitration Award the arbitrator enforced contractual language notwithstanding a twelve year contrary past practice. The grievance challenged the City’s twelve-year practice of compensating Animal Control Officers for overtime based upon a forty (40)...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Feb 16, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
In two recent cases, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has flatly rejected efforts by public employers to overturn arbitrator awards in favor of unions representing criminal justice system employees. It is a basic principle of Massachusetts labor law that courts...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Feb 16, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
Many police chiefs and public employers have misinterpreted the DiSciullo decision (perhaps willfully) to claim that they must fire law enforcement officers who make any lie or misstatement. A recent decision shows that once again, public employers have it wrong. In...
by Sandulli Grace Staff | Feb 16, 2007 | In Our Opinion...
In another case involving the Suffolk County Sheriff, Sheriff of Suffolk County v. AFSCME Council 93 (Feb. 13, 2007), the Massachusetts Appeals Court rejected another effort to void a public employer’s attack on an arbitrator’s award of reinstatement. This case dealt...
