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Contracts-Beneficiaries-Right Of Employee To Sue On A Contract Made Between Employer And Union
Contracts-Beneficiaries-Right Of Employee To Sue On A Contract Made Between Employer And Union
Michigan Law Review
Defendant agreed with an employees' union that its employees would not be discharged without cause or without a hearing. The plaintiff, who entered into an employment contract with the defendant for an indefinite term, was discharged by the latter without a hearing, and sued as a third party beneficiary for breach of the defendant's agreement with the union. Held, in Johnson v. Am. Ry Express Co., that this agreement was a valid third party beneficiary contract, and so enforcible by the plaintiff who was one of the parties intended to be benefited by it.
Labor Injunctions-Federal Statute Defining And Limiting The Jurisdiction Of Courts Sitting In Equity
Labor Injunctions-Federal Statute Defining And Limiting The Jurisdiction Of Courts Sitting In Equity
Michigan Law Review
The latest effort of organized labor to protect itself against judicial interference in industrial disputes is to be found in the Norris anti-injunction bill, passed by Congress early this year and signed by the President on March 23, 1932. Its object is to limit the powers of federal courts at law and in equity, and chiefly to regulate the grant of federal injunctions in labor disputes. Similar legislation, state and federal, has encountered many obstacles, either by way of restrictive interpretation or through constitutional limitations. It is, therefore, interesting to examine not only the main provisions of the Norris Act …
Corporations - Insolvency - Statutes Giving Priority To Wage Claims
Corporations - Insolvency - Statutes Giving Priority To Wage Claims
Michigan Law Review
Statutes giving liens or preferences to wage claims upon the insolvency of corporations are found among the laws of many states. In reference to the priority established, these statutes can be divided into three classes: those specifically stating that the lien or preference created shall be prior to all other claims not secured by specific liens, those specifically stating that wage claims shall be superior to all other claims upon the property of the corporation, including mortgages, and those making wage claims a lien or preferred debt to be paid "before any other debt or debts." Under this last type …
Strike Injunctions In The New South, Jeff B. Fordham
Strike Injunctions In The New South, Jeff B. Fordham
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Torts - Federal Employers Liability Act - Misrepresentation To Gain Employment
Torts - Federal Employers Liability Act - Misrepresentation To Gain Employment
Michigan Law Review
P applied for a position as switchman with the defendant company. Defendant company had a rule that no one should be employed over the age of 45. Employees who had reached the age of 65 were pensioned but this limit was extended in some cases to 70. To gain employment, P, who was 49, represented that he was 38. He was accepted, and worked for 7 years when he was injured through defendant's negligence while engaged in interstate commerce. Held, his misrepresentation to gain employment did not bar recovery under the Federal Employers Liability Act, it not appearing that …
Protection Of Employees Against Abrupt Discharge, G. T. Schwenning
Protection Of Employees Against Abrupt Discharge, G. T. Schwenning
Michigan Law Review
The dismissal compensation law movement is a significant, though relatively new, effort on the part of industrial nations to minimize the hazards of employment uncertainty. It is a development in labor legislation of recent origin designed to stabilize employment contracts by limiting employers' freedom of arbitrary and abrupt discharge. Where such statutes have been enacted, employers are required to give their employees advance notice of the termination of the labor contract or to pay compensation in lieu of notice. The length of the time of notice ranges in different countries from five days to two years, while the discharge compensation …
Legislation - Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Act
Legislation - Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance Act
Michigan Law Review
Culminating years of activity in its state legislature, Wisconsin on January twenty-eighth adopted the Groves Bill (Bill No. 8, A) providing for compulsory unemployment insurance, the first legislation of the sort to be enacted in the United States. For a discussion of unemployment insurance measures introduced at the 1931 legislatures see 30 MICH. L. REV. 410 (January, 1932). The compulsory plan is to become operative July 1, 1933, unless Wisconsin employers employing more than 175,000 workers in the state have by that date established approved voluntary insurance systems.
Master And Servant - "Respondeat Superior" - Responsibility Of Master For The Malicious Act Of Servant
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff and defendant were competitors in the laundry business. While plaintiff was collecting laundry a dispute arose between him and defendant's driver over the right to certain laundry of which plaintiff had taken possession. The driver undertook to obtain it from plaintiff by force and assaulted him. Suit was brought against the laundry company as principal. Held, though arising out of the business, the assault was outside the scope of employment so defendant was not liable. Morin v. Wet Wash Laundry Company (N. H. 1931) 156 Atl. 499.
Insolvency Statutes Preferring Wages Due Employees, Paul G. Kauper
Insolvency Statutes Preferring Wages Due Employees, Paul G. Kauper
Michigan Law Review
Insolvency statutes of a majority of American states and the bankruptcy acts of the United States and England allow a preference to the claims of employees for wages accruing prior to the employer's insolvency or bankruptcy. Related types of legislation such as statutes creating an absolute lien on the employer's property to secure payment of wages, giving a preference to the employees of a deceased employer in the administration of his estate, exempting the wages of laborers from attachment or garnishment, making stockholders of a corporation individually liable for debts representing wages due employees, allowing employees to interpose their claims …
Legislation - Unemployment Insurance Bills
Legislation - Unemployment Insurance Bills
Michigan Law Review
The ever-present problem of unemployment is today particularly acute. The ultimate aim, of course, must be to put an end to unemployment. But achievement of this aim is not in sight, and in the meantime we are set the task of mitigating, so far as possible, the sufferings incident to unemployment. The laissez-faire attitude toward social problems is passing, and an increasing opinion accepts this task of mitigation as resting on society. In 1908 Sir William Beveridge was able to write: "There has been thus a steady, if gradual, growth of the sense of public responsibility for the case of …