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Full-Text Articles in Law
Firing Employment At Will And Discharging Termination Claims From Employment Discrimination: A Cooperative Federalism Approach To Improve Employment Law, William Corbett
Firing Employment At Will And Discharging Termination Claims From Employment Discrimination: A Cooperative Federalism Approach To Improve Employment Law, William Corbett
Journal Articles
The article focuses on employment at will and employment discrimination law-and explores how each encroaches upon and weakens the other. It mentions federal-state cooperative approach to "firing" employment at will and discharging termination claims from the federal employment discrimination laws. It also mentions cooperative federalism approach to improve employment law and basics of a wrongful discharge statute.
Missing The Forest For The Weeds: Filling The Holes In Louisiana’S Medical Marijuana Statutes To Protect Employees, Catherine Briley
Missing The Forest For The Weeds: Filling The Holes In Louisiana’S Medical Marijuana Statutes To Protect Employees, Catherine Briley
Louisiana Law Review
The article discusses the status, as of May 2019, of marijuana legislation in the U.S. at both federal and state levels, with focus on the state of Louisiana, in the context of employment law, including significant court decisions that either uphold or dismiss statutory protections from wrongful termination for marijuana use.
“Bring Your Gun To Work” And You’Re Fired: Terminatedemployees’ Potential Rights For Violations Of Parking Lot Laws, Malerie Leigh Bulot
“Bring Your Gun To Work” And You’Re Fired: Terminatedemployees’ Potential Rights For Violations Of Parking Lot Laws, Malerie Leigh Bulot
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on constitutionality of Parking Lot laws and tort of wrongful discharge with public policy and whistleblower and the issues regarding gun-storing employee's right of action against a former employer who violated a state's Parking Lot law.
Public Policy And Workers’ Rights: Wrongful Discharge Discipline Actions And Reasonable Good Faith Beliefs, Ann C. Mcginley, Nicole Buonocore Porter
Public Policy And Workers’ Rights: Wrongful Discharge Discipline Actions And Reasonable Good Faith Beliefs, Ann C. Mcginley, Nicole Buonocore Porter
Scholarly Works
In this paper, Professor Ann McGinley responds to Chapter 5 of the ALI's Restatement of the Law: Employment Law ("Restatement of Employment Law"), concerning "The Tort of Wrongful Discharge in Violation of Public Policy."' It proceeds in five parts. Following an introduction in Part I, Part II summarizes generally the provisions of Chapter 5, the Working Group's objections to the earlier version and recommendations for changes, and explains (when appropriate) where the final version deviated from the prior version. Part III argues that this chapter should have kept the prior version's protection against wrongful discipline instead of protecting only against …
Wrongful Discharge Law And The Search For Third-Party Effects, Stewart J. Schwab
Wrongful Discharge Law And The Search For Third-Party Effects, Stewart J. Schwab
Stewart J Schwab
No abstract provided.
Nlra Preemption Of State Common Law Wrongful Discharge Claims: The Bhopal Brigade Goes Home , Joseph R. Weeks
Nlra Preemption Of State Common Law Wrongful Discharge Claims: The Bhopal Brigade Goes Home , Joseph R. Weeks
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Advice To California Employers: An Overview Of Wrongful Discharge Law And How To Avoid Potential Liability, Teresa Howell Sharp
Advice To California Employers: An Overview Of Wrongful Discharge Law And How To Avoid Potential Liability, Teresa Howell Sharp
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Texas Appellate Courts Are Likely To Find Waivers Of Sovereign Immunity Of State Agencies In Anti-Retaliation Claims Under The State Applications Act, Tri T. Truong
Tri T Truong
The State of Texas, its agencies, and political subdivisions enjoy immunity from suit and liability unless the Texas Legislature (“Legislature”) expressly waives immunity. When an anti-retaliation claim is filed against a state agency, that agency does not have the same protection under Texas law to invoke sovereign immunity as does a municipality or other governmental subdivisions, even though the two governmental entities are governed by similar statutes—the State Applications Act (“Act”) and the Political Subdivisions Law (“PSL”), respectively. This paper focuses on four principal cases: Barfield, Fernandez, Norman, and Beltran. In 1995, the Barfield court decided that the election-of-remedies provision …
California Wrongful Discharge Law Turns Toward The Plaintiff , Jennifer Vanse
California Wrongful Discharge Law Turns Toward The Plaintiff , Jennifer Vanse
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Sarbanes-Oxley & The Culture Of Bribery: Expanding The Territorial Scope Of Private Whistleblower Suits To Overseas Employees, Matt A. Vega
Sarbanes-Oxley & The Culture Of Bribery: Expanding The Territorial Scope Of Private Whistleblower Suits To Overseas Employees, Matt A. Vega
Matt A Vega
SARBANES-OXLEY & THE CULTURE OF BRIBERY: EXPANDING THE TERRITORIAL SCOPE OF PRIVATE WHISTLEBLOWER SUITS TO OVERSEAS EMPLOYEES, by Matt A. Vega
This article has been accepted for publication in Vol. 46, No. 2 Harvard J. on Legis. 425 (Summer 2009).
Abstract: This paper examines the use of private transnational litigation to enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA). Small, but repetitive bribery of foreign officials by local employees is the Achilles heel of corporate ethics. In fact, it is what perpetuates the “culture of bribery” that makes major corruption possible. Unless overseas employees refuse to give in to …
The Future Of American Labor And Employment Law: Hopes, Dreams, And Realities, Theodore J. St. Antoine
The Future Of American Labor And Employment Law: Hopes, Dreams, And Realities, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Articles
In many respects the US is a deeply conservative country. Unique among the major industrial democracies of the world, it imposes the death penalty, provides no national health insurance, fixes a high legal drinking age, and subscribes to the doctrine of employment at will. Perhaps not surprisingly, its labor movement is also one of the most conservative on earth, eschewing class warfare and aiming largely at the bread-and-butter goal of improved wages, benefits, and working conditions. Yet American employers have generally never been as accepting of unionization as their counterparts in other countries (Bok 1971; Freeman and Medoff 1984). Over …
Controlling The Cat's Paw: Circuit Split Concerning The Level Of Control A Biased Subordinate Must Exert Over The Formal Decisionmaker's Choice To Terminate, Taran S. Kaler
Santa Clara Law Review
No abstract provided.
Labor And Employment Law, W. David Paxton, Gregory R. Hunt
Labor And Employment Law, W. David Paxton, Gregory R. Hunt
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
"You're Fired!" Determining Whether A Wrongly Terminated Employee Who Has Been Reinstated With Back Pay Has An Actionable Title Vii Retaliation Claim, Anna Ku
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Conscripting Attorneys To Battle Corporate Fraud Without Shields Or Armor? Reconsidering Retaliatory Discharge In Light Of Sarbanes-Oxley, Kim T. Vu
Michigan Law Review
This Note advocates that federal courts should allow attorneys to bring retaliatory discharge claims under SOX. Traditional rationales prohibiting the claims of retaliatory discharge by attorneys do not apply in the context of Sarbanes-Oxley. This Note contends that the Department of Labor and the federal courts should interpret the whistleblower provisions of § 806 as protecting attorneys who report under § 307. Assuring reporting attorneys that they have protection from retaliation will encourage them to whistleblow and thereby advance SOX's policy goal of ferreting out corporate fraud. Part I explores the legal landscape of retaliatory discharge suits by attorneys. This …
The Costs Of Wrongful-Discharge Laws, Stewart J. Schwab, David H. Autor, James J. Donohue Iii
The Costs Of Wrongful-Discharge Laws, Stewart J. Schwab, David H. Autor, James J. Donohue Iii
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
We estimate the effects on employment and wages of wrongful discharge protections adopted by U.S. state courts during the last three decades. We find robust evidence that one wrongful-discharge doctrine, the implied-contract exception, reduced state employment rates by 0.8% to 1.7%. The initial impact is largest for female and less-educated workers (those who change jobs frequently), while the longer-term effect is greater for older and more-educated workers (those most likely to litigate). By contrast, we find no robust employment or wage effects of two other widely recognized wrongful-discharge laws: the public-policy and good-faith exceptions.
Wrongful Discharge: The Use Of Federal Law As A Source Of Public Policy, Nancy M. Modesitt
Wrongful Discharge: The Use Of Federal Law As A Source Of Public Policy, Nancy M. Modesitt
All Faculty Scholarship
Wrongful discharge in violation of public policy circumscribes the employment at-will doctrine by prohibiting employers from firing employees who engage in conduct that is deemed to be protected by state or federal public policy. While much has been written about the pros and cons of such wrongful discharge claims, to date no scholarship has focused on the problems that arise when the source of public policy is a federal rather than state statute. This article analyzes the historical and current approaches to the use of federal statutes as a source of public policy to protect employees against discharge, concluding that …
Victimizing The Abused?: Is Termination The Solution When Domestic Violence Comes To Work?, Nicole Buonocore Porter
Victimizing The Abused?: Is Termination The Solution When Domestic Violence Comes To Work?, Nicole Buonocore Porter
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
Part I of this article will discuss domestic violence, explaining the dynamics of domestic violence in an effort to shed light on why it is so difficult for a battered woman to leave the abusive relationship. This understanding is necessary for a sensitive and informed decision-making process. This Part will also discuss the magnitude of the effect that domestic violence has on the workplace. Part II will discuss a company's potential legal liability for: (a) wrongfully terminating the employee-victim and (b) failing to protect other employees (including, perhaps, the employee-victim herself) if the company does not terminate the employee-victim and …
Labor And Employment Law, W. David Paxton, Gregory R. Hunt
Labor And Employment Law, W. David Paxton, Gregory R. Hunt
University of Richmond Law Review
It was a relatively quiet year in the Virginia labor and employment law arena, with no real groundbreaking cases or legislative enactments. There were developments in case law and legislative changes, but these were more subtle this year than in years past, and for the most part, the courts confirmed, affirmed, or clarified the existing state of the law. This article discusses cases and legislative activity of note in the Virginia labor and employment law arena during the past year. Part II addresses recent cases considering employment agreements under Virginia law. Part III considers cases in the continually evolving area …
Labor And Employment Law, Thomas M. Winn Iii, Lindsey H. Dobbs
Labor And Employment Law, Thomas M. Winn Iii, Lindsey H. Dobbs
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bad Facts, Bad Law: Feliciano V. 7-Eleven, Inc. And Self-Defense As A Substantial Public Policy, Thomas H. Ewing
Bad Facts, Bad Law: Feliciano V. 7-Eleven, Inc. And Self-Defense As A Substantial Public Policy, Thomas H. Ewing
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Why Punitive Damages Should Be Awarded For Retaliatory Discharge Under The Fair Labor Standards Act, Carol Abdelmesseh, Deanne M. Diblasi
Why Punitive Damages Should Be Awarded For Retaliatory Discharge Under The Fair Labor Standards Act, Carol Abdelmesseh, Deanne M. Diblasi
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Porterfield V. Mascari H, Inc.: "A Clear Mandate Of Public Policy" Remains Unclear In Maryland's Wrongful Discharge Jurisprudence, Benjamin S. Haley
Porterfield V. Mascari H, Inc.: "A Clear Mandate Of Public Policy" Remains Unclear In Maryland's Wrongful Discharge Jurisprudence, Benjamin S. Haley
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Tort Of Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress In The Private Employment Sector, Frank J. Cavico
The Tort Of Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress In The Private Employment Sector, Frank J. Cavico
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Discoverability Of Severance Agreements In Wrongful Discharge Litigation, Michael D. Moberly
The Discoverability Of Severance Agreements In Wrongful Discharge Litigation, Michael D. Moberly
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Smith V. Bates Technical College: Washington Extends The Availability Of The Tort Of Wrongful Discharge In Violation Of Public Policy, But A Little Too Far: Employees Should Still Exhaust Other Remedies, Richard A. Morris
Seattle University Law Review
This Note will present and analyze two significant issues addressed by the Smith court. First, the court properly decided that state common law claims are not preempted by collective bargaining agreements or available administrative procedures. Second, the court incorrectly determined that exhaustion of administrative or contractual remedies is not a prerequisite to seeking tort relief in court. The judiciary should give deference to administrative or contractual procedures specifically designed to resolve the matter in dispute. This Note will analyze the preemption issue by first examining, in Part II, the general function of common law torts, the doctrine of employment-at-will, and …
The Changing Role Of Labor Arbitration (Symposium: New Rules For A New Game: Regulating Employment Relationships In The 21st Century), Theodore J. St. Antoine
The Changing Role Of Labor Arbitration (Symposium: New Rules For A New Game: Regulating Employment Relationships In The 21st Century), Theodore J. St. Antoine
Articles
A quarter century ago, in a provocative and prophetic article, David E. Feller lamented the imminent close of what he described as labor arbitration's "golden age." I have expressed reservations about that characterization, insofar as it suggested an impending shrinkage in the stature of arbitration. But Professor Feller was right on target in one important respect. Labor arbitration was going to change dramatically from the autonomous institution in the relatively self-contained world of union-management relations which it had been from the end of World War II into the 1970s. When the subject matter was largely confined to union-employer agreements, arbitration …
Gilmer In The Collective Bargaining Context, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Gilmer In The Collective Bargaining Context, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Articles
Can a privately negotiated arbitration agreement deprive employees of the statutory right to sue in court on claims of discrimination in employment because of race, sex, religion, age, disability, and similar grounds prohibited by federal law? Two leading U.S. Supreme Court decisions, decided almost two decades apart, reached substantially different answers to this questionand arguably stood logic on its head in the process. In the earlier case of Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co., involving arbitration under a collective bargaining agreement, the Court held an adverse award did not preclude a subsequent federal court action by the black grievant alleging racial discrimination. …
Judicial Review Of Arbitration Awards Under The New South Africa Labour Relations Act Of 1995, Calvin William Sharpe
Judicial Review Of Arbitration Awards Under The New South Africa Labour Relations Act Of 1995, Calvin William Sharpe
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
What Kulch Accomplished, What Kulch Left Out , Tim L. Sprague, Sandra J. Kerber
What Kulch Accomplished, What Kulch Left Out , Tim L. Sprague, Sandra J. Kerber
Cleveland State Law Review
The general rule that an at-will employee can be discharged at any time for any or no reason is not the case in Ohio, because it has developed a wrongful discharge exception to the employment at-will doctrine. Under this doctrine, an employer who wrongfully discharges an employee in violation of clear public policy is subject to an action for damages. The Ohio legislature enacted the Whistleblower’s Statute, which allows the terminated whistleblower to maintain a cause of action against his employer. The Ohio Supreme Court has strengthened protection by allowing the terminated employee to bring common law action for wrongful …