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Model Uniform Employment Termination Act, National Conference Of Commissioners On Uniform State Laws Jan 1991

Model Uniform Employment Termination Act, National Conference Of Commissioners On Uniform State Laws

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The Scope and Program Committee, at its meeting on January 11-12, 1985, recommended to the Executive Committee that it appoint a Committee to draft a Uniform Wrongful Termination Act. The recommendation was based in part on studies indicating that recent judicial modifications in the doctrine of employment at will had created great uncertainty for both employers and employees. (That uncertainty has grown. See infra.) Members of the Scope and Program Committee stressed that uniformity would be desirable because employees might be hired in one state, work in another, and be fired in a third, and that the subject gave the …


Whither Arbitration?—Comments, Theodore J. St. Antoine Jan 1991

Whither Arbitration?—Comments, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Book Chapters

Exactly 30 years ago this month the Michigan Law Review published an article that evoked in me an emotion I must confess is the surest sign that I am in the presence of excellence-envy! The piece was entitled, "Past Practice and the Administration of Collective Bargaining Agreements." It was authored by the esteemed principal speaker at this session, and it came as close as anything I have ever read to deserving that much-overworked appellation, "definitive." It is always hazardous to try to predict the ultimate rating of a brand new vintage, but my first tasting of Dick Mittenthal's latest product …


Drafting The Dispute Resolution Clause, Whitmore Gray Jan 1991

Drafting The Dispute Resolution Clause, Whitmore Gray

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Providing in a contract for ways to resolve disputes that may arise presents a substantial challenge to the lawyer. In one sense, this is what a lawyer regularly does in contract drafting-anticipating misunderstandings or problems that experience has indicated are likely to arise, and trying to provide clear solutions in advance. When it comes to drafting a specific clause for the resolution of further disputes that may arise, however, many lawyers are at a substantial disadvantage. The task comes at the end of the substantive negotiations. The client does not want to focus on, or draw the other party's attention …