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Don't Throw The Price Waterhouse Baby Out With The Bath Water: Age Discrimination And The Direct Evidence/Mixed Motive Puzzle, Mary L. Beyer Jan 1991

Don't Throw The Price Waterhouse Baby Out With The Bath Water: Age Discrimination And The Direct Evidence/Mixed Motive Puzzle, Mary L. Beyer

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This Comment examines why Washington should place a higher burden on employers in direct evidence and mixed motive age discrimination cases. Because Washington courts follow federal case law in interpreting state anti-discrimination legislation, Section II examines relevant federal statutes and the history of their interpretation by federal courts. Section III explores the courts' modification of the traditional federal approach found in direct evidence and mixed motive cases. Section IV discusses Washington's anti-discrimination statute and Washington's judicial interpretation of that statute. Section V demonstrates Washington's insufficient response to federal developments in direct evidence and mixed motive cases. Finally, Section VI identifies …

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Enhanced Monitoring Of White Collar Employees: Should Employers Be Required To Disclose?, Jeff Kray, Pamela Robertson Jan 1991

Enhanced Monitoring Of White Collar Employees: Should Employers Be Required To Disclose?, Jeff Kray, Pamela Robertson

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This Comment presents a five part legal and economic analysis of enhanced monitoring of white collar employees. Section I defines the employment contract. Section II provides an overview of the legal issues raised by enhanced monitoring of white collar employees. Section III discusses the economics of enhanced monitoring. Section IV presents an analysis of the legal and economic effects of an employer's enhanced monitoring of white collar employees. Finally, Section V describes and evaluates proposed federal legislation that would require employers to disclose the use of enhanced monitoring to employees.

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At-Will Employment In Washington: A Review Of Thompson V. Sl Regis Paper Co. And Its Progeny, Richard Wall Jan 1990

At-Will Employment In Washington: A Review Of Thompson V. Sl Regis Paper Co. And Its Progeny, Richard Wall

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The purpose of this Article is to examine the nature and origin of the issues now being faced by Washington courts in the area of at will employment and to argue that the well-established legal principles governing other kinds of contracts be consistently applied to at will employment contracts. This will result in a proper balance between the desire to protect at will employees from unfair termination and the need to allow employers the freedom to make decisions in the hiring and termination of at will employees without undue interference. This Article will first review the historical development of the …

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The Legal Rights Of Nonsmokers In The Workplace, Raymond L. Paolella Jan 1987

The Legal Rights Of Nonsmokers In The Workplace, Raymond L. Paolella

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This Article examines the legal rights of nonsmokers based upon the common law right to a safe workplace, federal and state laws protecting handicapped persons, other tort theories, various federal and state statutory provisions, administrative regulations, and local ordinances. Although strong emphasis is placed on the legal rights of nonsmokers in the workplace, the rights of nonsmokers in public places will also be discussed. The main focus is on Washington law; however, the common law and federal law theories discussed in this Article should be viable in many other jurisdictions throughout the United States.

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Should Representation Elections Be Governed By Principles Or Expediency?, Mary Ellen Krug, Michele Gammer Jan 1986

Should Representation Elections Be Governed By Principles Or Expediency?, Mary Ellen Krug, Michele Gammer

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Should the National Labor Relations Board' set aside representation elections because one or more parties has tried to influence the voting with misrepresentation of facts or law? Although the Board is responsible for ensuring fair elections, in Midland National Life Insurance Co. it embraced a rule inconsistent with this statutory responsibility, rejecting the Hollywood Ceramics Co. rule and narrowly limiting Board review of campaign misrepresentations. This Article examines the Midland standard in light of the Board's statutory duty to protect the right of employees to a free and fair choice of collective bargaining representatives. The Article reviews the historical development …

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An Observation About Comparable Worth, George Schatzki Jan 1986

An Observation About Comparable Worth, George Schatzki

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The ultimate legal question is: Does Title VII incorporate the comparable worth doctrine? The courts are saying, "No." Their reasoning is, at best, unpersuasive. Indeed, often their reasoning is nothing more than mere conclusion. Given what I have described briefly as the legal arguments pro and con, one can easily understand that so long as Griggs remains a part of the Title VII scene, there is a rational but not compelling argument to incorporate comparable worth into the Act. How, then, does a court decide? The following discussion is offered not as an example of desirable or undesirable judicial analysis. …

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Sex Stereotyping And Statistics—Equality In An Insurance Context, Cheryl Bleakney Jan 1983

Sex Stereotyping And Statistics—Equality In An Insurance Context, Cheryl Bleakney

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This Comment first outlines a few basic insurance concepts and distinguishes employer-provided plans from individually purchased policies. It then examines discrimination criteria and City of Los Angeles, Department of Water and Power v. Manhart's application of Title VII and applies those principles to Supreme Court cases. The Comment also suggests that FIPA be revised to extend its gender-neutral requirements only to employer provided group plans.

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Glass V. Stahl Specialty Company: Reconciling Third Party's Contribution Rights With Employer's Immunity Under Workers' Compensation, Karin Nyrop Jan 1983

Glass V. Stahl Specialty Company: Reconciling Third Party's Contribution Rights With Employer's Immunity Under Workers' Compensation, Karin Nyrop

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This note argues that the correct resolution of the tension between the employer’s immunity and the third party’s right of contribution requires balancing the interests of all parties. The employer has an interest in retaining the workers’ compensation law’s exclusive no-fault recovery system; the third party tortfeasor seeks to avoid shouldering the entire liability of another at-fault tortfeasor capable of contribution. At the same time, the employee has a right to full and speedy compensation, and the state has an interest in maintaining the financial stability of its accident fund. This note explores the policies and legal arguments supporting the …

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A Reexamination Of The Role Of Employer Motive Under Sections 8(A)(1) And 8(A)(3) Of The National Labor Relations Act, Paul N. Cox Jan 1982

A Reexamination Of The Role Of Employer Motive Under Sections 8(A)(1) And 8(A)(3) Of The National Labor Relations Act, Paul N. Cox

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The question of the role of employer motive in analysis of the unfair labor practices defined by Sections 8(a)(1) and (3) of the National Labor Relations Act has troubled the National Labor Relations Board and the courts from time of the enactment of that legislation. Despite repeated efforts by the Supreme Court to authoritatively define that role and repeated efforts by academics to advise the Court in the task, motive's function remains confused—the subject of diverse viewpoints compromised in the cases by an analysis which submerges fundamental isssues in the language of procedural burdens of proof. The Board, which had …

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Defining Religious Discrimination In Employment: Has Reasonable Accommodation Survived Hardison?, Randall J. Borkowski Jan 1979

Defining Religious Discrimination In Employment: Has Reasonable Accommodation Survived Hardison?, Randall J. Borkowski

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Because the primary purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the elimination of racial discrimination, not surprisingly the Act's legislative history left unclear the congressional intent of also including religion as an illegal ground for employment discrimination under Title VII. After 1964, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)' and the courts struggled to interpret Title VII's prohibition of religious discrimination. In 1972, Congress amended Title VII to explicitly protect religious conduct, as well as beliefs, provided the employer might "reasonably accommodate" the conduct without "undue hardship" to his business.' In Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, however, …

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Holland V. Boeing Co.--Extending Protection Against Employment Discrimination To Transfers Of Handicapped Employees, Joanne Whitehead Jan 1979

Holland V. Boeing Co.--Extending Protection Against Employment Discrimination To Transfers Of Handicapped Employees, Joanne Whitehead

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In Holland v. Boeing Co., the Washington Supreme Court considered for the first time a handicap discrimination case under the unfair employment practices section of the Washington Law Against Discrimination. In construing the statute, the Holland court emphasized that the handicapped are inherently different from other classes antidiscrimination legislation traditionally protects. The court then imposed upon the defendant-employer a high duty of accommodating the disabilities of handicapped employees. Thus, the decision provides important recognition of disabled workers' civil rights.

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Unemployment Insurance: The Washington Supreme Court And The Labor Dispute Disqualification, Steven Soha Jan 1978

Unemployment Insurance: The Washington Supreme Court And The Labor Dispute Disqualification, Steven Soha

Seattle University Law Review

This comment discusses a disqualification common to all state statutes' disqualifying from benefits workers unemployed because of a labor dispute, and focuses upon the Washington Supreme Court's interpretation of the labor dispute disqualification in the Washington Unemployment Compensation Act. After discussing the court's approach to the disqualification in the context of Washington case law, the comment examines various policy considerations underlying the labor dispute disqualification and contrasts the Washington court's interpretation with the interpretation other state courts have accorded similar labor dispute disqualification statutes. Finally, the comment concludes that the Washington court's singularly narrow interpretation of the labor dispute disqualification …

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Age Discrimination In Employment: The 1978 Adea Amendments And The Social Impact Of Aging, Thomas J. Reed Jan 1978

Age Discrimination In Employment: The 1978 Adea Amendments And The Social Impact Of Aging, Thomas J. Reed

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This article will explore the sociology behind the original Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the structure of the 1967 ADEA, its weaknesses and strengths during its ten-year life, and the effectiveness of the 1978 amendments in dealing with the problems inherent in the original Act.

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