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"Magnificent Circularity" And The Churkendoose: Llc Members And Federal Employment Law, Daniel S. Kleinberger
"Magnificent Circularity" And The Churkendoose: Llc Members And Federal Employment Law, Daniel S. Kleinberger
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This article seeks to explain under what circumstances federal employment statutes should apply to LLC members. Part I recounts the advent of LLCs and describes the essential characteristics of LLCs and their members. Part II explores how federal employment case law handles the employee vel non question and explains the problems in using that case law to determine whether LLC members are "employees" for federal employment law purposes. Part Ill attempts to make sense of that case law and proposes a rule for determining when a business owner can provide services to the business without becoming an "employee." Part IV …
Fired Employees And/Or Frozen-Out Shareholders (An Essay), Deborah A. Schmedemann
Fired Employees And/Or Frozen-Out Shareholders (An Essay), Deborah A. Schmedemann
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The thesis of this essay can be stated as follows: Shareholder-employees should be able to recover for loss of employment, within the cause of action provided by corporate law, where the termination violates public law, breaches the agreement among the shareholders, or is unsupported by legitimate business purposes. In Part II, this essay presents the employment model, including the paradigm of employment that the law builds on, the starting premise of employment law, the roles of private and public law, and the remedies afforded for violations of an employee's rights. In Part III, this essay develops the corporate model, discussing …
Same-Sex Sexual Harassment: Subverting The Heterosexist Paradigm Of The Title Vii, Carolyn Grose
Same-Sex Sexual Harassment: Subverting The Heterosexist Paradigm Of The Title Vii, Carolyn Grose
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This article argues that the proper starting point is to provide protection for gay men and lesbians against discrimination and harassment. Until there is such protection, any attempt to use Title VII to regulate same-sex sexual harassment will intensify the privileging of one kind of same-sex interaction over another: straight subordinates will be protected from gay supervisors, while gay subordinates will not be protected from straight supervisors. The result will be increased tolerance not for expressions of gay and lesbian sexuality, but for expressions of heterosexism and homophobia in the workplace. Part I of this article examines the development of …
Unions And Urinalysis, Deborah A. Schmedemann
Unions And Urinalysis, Deborah A. Schmedemann
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Many private employers seem to be busy deciding whether and how to test employees for drug use. Presumably most of these decisions are made by management acting alone. However, in unionized workplaces—one out of five private sector employees are represented by unions—federal labor law prescribes a different method. That method features collective bargaining by unions and management to set the rules, the use of a private third-party neutral to resolve disputes which arise under those rules (arbitration), and relatively little involvement by the government (the National Labor Relations Board, legislatures, and the courts). This system that labor law prescribes for …
The Scope Of Bargaining In Minnesota Public Sector Labor Relations: A Proposal For Change, Deborah A. Schmedemann
The Scope Of Bargaining In Minnesota Public Sector Labor Relations: A Proposal For Change, Deborah A. Schmedemann
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This article surveys and analyzes the law on the scope of bargaining under the Minnesota Public Employment Labor Relations Act (PERLA) and suggests ways to make it more certain and responsive to public policy. Part II sets out the conflicting policy considerations to be accommodated in defining the scope of bargaining. These considerations form the basis for Part Ill's criticism of the present law under PELRA and guide the recommendations for change made in Part IV.