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Workmen's Compensation For Maritime Employees: Obscurity In The Twilight Zone, Robert E. Rodes Nov 2013

Workmen's Compensation For Maritime Employees: Obscurity In The Twilight Zone, Robert E. Rodes

Robert Rodes

No abstract provided.


Foreword: Health In The Workplace, Barbara Fick Nov 2013

Foreword: Health In The Workplace, Barbara Fick

Barbara J. Fick

This article is a brief forward to the 1987 Notre Dame Law Review Symposium Issue.


Time Is Money--But Is It Compensable Work? An Analysis Of Ibp, Inc. V. Alvarez, Barbara J. Fick Nov 2013

Time Is Money--But Is It Compensable Work? An Analysis Of Ibp, Inc. V. Alvarez, Barbara J. Fick

Barbara J. Fick

This article previews the Supreme Court case IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez, 546 U.S. 21 (2005). The issues raised in that case were: Is the time employees spend walking and waiting in line during the process of donning and doffing required safety equipment considered compensable work such that employers must pay them for that time?


Reconciling The Nlra And Irca: Can An Undocumented Worker Receive Back Pay? An Analysis Of Hoffman Plastic Compound, Inc. V. Nlrb, Barbara J. Fick Nov 2013

Reconciling The Nlra And Irca: Can An Undocumented Worker Receive Back Pay? An Analysis Of Hoffman Plastic Compound, Inc. V. Nlrb, Barbara J. Fick

Barbara J. Fick

This article previews the Supreme Court case Hoffman Plastic Compound, Inc., v. NLRB, 535 U.S. 137 (2002). The author expected the Court to address in this case the apparent conflict between the National Labor Relations Act's goal of the prevention of unfair labor practices and the Immigration Reform and Control Act's denial of employment to undocumented aliens. This issue arose because of an award of back pay to an undocumented worker who was fired because of his union organizing activities.


A Study Of Occupational Disease Claims Within Washington's Workers' Compensation System, Kevin Hollenbeck, Peter S. Barth, H. Allan Hunt, Kenneth D. Rosenman Aug 2013

A Study Of Occupational Disease Claims Within Washington's Workers' Compensation System, Kevin Hollenbeck, Peter S. Barth, H. Allan Hunt, Kenneth D. Rosenman

H. Allan Hunt

No abstract provided.


Assessing Fairness In Workers' Compensation Reform: A Commentary On The 1995 West Virginia Workers' Compensation Legislation, Emily Spieler Feb 2013

Assessing Fairness In Workers' Compensation Reform: A Commentary On The 1995 West Virginia Workers' Compensation Legislation, Emily Spieler

Emily A. Spieler

No abstract provided.


Injured Workers, Workers’ Compensation, And Work: New Perspectives On The Workers' Compensation Debate In West Virginia, Emily A. Spieler Feb 2013

Injured Workers, Workers’ Compensation, And Work: New Perspectives On The Workers' Compensation Debate In West Virginia, Emily A. Spieler

Emily A. Spieler

No abstract provided.


Workers’ Compensation And The Right To Interstate Travel – Schatz V Interfaith Care Centre, Mel Cousins Jan 2013

Workers’ Compensation And The Right To Interstate Travel – Schatz V Interfaith Care Centre, Mel Cousins

Mel Cousins

In Schatz, the Minnesota supreme court considered the interesting question of the right to interstate travel as it affects workers’ compensation. While we know that durational residence requirements for welfare benefits and medical care are likely to be found to be unconstitutional, the US courts have to date not greatly explored where other conditions of social security, workers compensation or welfare schemes may impinge on the right to interstate travel. In order to set the groundwork, Part 1 of this note sets out the Supreme Court’s decisions concerning benefits and the right to travel, focusing on the aspects of most …