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Solomon And Strikes: Labor Activity, The Contract Doctrine Of Impossibility Or Impracticability Of Performance, And Federal Labor Policy, Daniel P. O'Gorman
Solomon And Strikes: Labor Activity, The Contract Doctrine Of Impossibility Or Impracticability Of Performance, And Federal Labor Policy, Daniel P. O'Gorman
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
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Employer Reputation At Work, Samuel Estreicher
Employer Reputation At Work, Samuel Estreicher
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
Employer reputational costs - that is, the loss in value of the firm's reputational assets if the firm reneges on its promises to workers, both express and implied, - has played an important role in the economic literature of employment contracts, but this factor has itself generated little sustained analysis. Reputation is often offered as a late-appearing deus ex machina explaining why opportunistic behavior by employers even in internal labor markets is likely to be relatively unimportant. This standard explanation for the enforceability of implicit labor contracts in internal labor markets is problematic for at least three reasons. It assumes …
A Subjective Approach To Contracts?: How Courts Interpret Employee Handbook Disclaimers, Natalie Bucciarelli Pedersen
A Subjective Approach To Contracts?: How Courts Interpret Employee Handbook Disclaimers, Natalie Bucciarelli Pedersen
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
Although employment law in America generally operates under the presumption that employment for an unspecified term is at-will, recently courts have been creating exceptions to this rule in order to afford employees more legal protections. This paper will focus on the judicially created handbook exception under which courts find that an employee handbook can be contractually binding on an employee and, therefore, may transform an employment relationship from one that is at-will to one that is for-cause. Specifically, the paper will examine cases where courts have analyzed employee handbooks which include a disclaimer enunciating that the handbook is, indeed, not …
From Statute To Contract: The Law Of The Employment Relationship Reconsidered, Eileen Silverstein
From Statute To Contract: The Law Of The Employment Relationship Reconsidered, Eileen Silverstein
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
Most observers would say that the employment relationship is regulated largely by statutes. This Article argues that the statutory regulation of the employment relationship, and its correction of market failures, is disappearing under the cloak of judicial decisions upholding contracts which, in one form or another, find individuals to have waived their and the public's statutory rights. In a variation on the nineteenth century's transformation of the employment relationship from status to contract, we have the contemporary move from statute to contract. Part I of this Article examines how contractual waivers operate within the framework of the statutory regulation of …
Putting Gilmer Where It Belongs: The Faa's Labor Exemption, David E. Feller
Putting Gilmer Where It Belongs: The Faa's Labor Exemption, David E. Feller
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
Relying on the Federal Arbitration Act, the Supreme Court in Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson-Lane Corp. enforced an agreement to arbitrate all disputes to prevent judicial adjudication of a claim under the Americans With Disabilities Act. That decision has led employers of millions of workers to require an agreement to arbitrate future claims of violations of all statutes protecting employment rights as a condition of getting or keeping a job. This article argues that the exemption in Section 1 of the Act of "contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce" …
Arbitration Of Employment Discrimination Claims Under Pre-Dispute Agreements: Will Gilmer Survive?, Michael Delikat, Rene Kathawala
Arbitration Of Employment Discrimination Claims Under Pre-Dispute Agreements: Will Gilmer Survive?, Michael Delikat, Rene Kathawala
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
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Arbitration Of Employment Discrimination Claims: Doctrine And Policy In The Wake Of Gilmer, Joseph R. Grodin
Arbitration Of Employment Discrimination Claims: Doctrine And Policy In The Wake Of Gilmer, Joseph R. Grodin
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
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Pre-Employment Dispute Arbitration Agreements: Yes, No And Maybe, Walter J. Gershenfeld
Pre-Employment Dispute Arbitration Agreements: Yes, No And Maybe, Walter J. Gershenfeld
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
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