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Employment Arbitration Agreements: The Case For Ethical Standards For Dispute Resolution System Designers, Michael L. Russell

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

Dispute resolution design is an emerging field, both academically and professionally. Attorneys, mediators, and arbitrators, the other roles in the alternative dispute resolution process, have codes of ethics which guide their conduct. Dispute resolution designers, however, have no such guidelines. This article uses the example of mandatory arbitration agreements in the employment context to illustrate why this lack of ethical guidelines for dispute resolutions designers is problematic. In recent years, mandatory arbitration agreements significantly impacted employment law and litigation. The two most problematic provisions that often appear in mandatory arbitration agreements in the workplace context are cost sharing provisions and ...

Application Of The Audit Privilege To Occupational Safety And Health Audits: Lessons Learned From Environmental Audits, Margaret S. Lopez

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Labor And Its Revenue In Islamic And Non-Islamic Economies- Dr. El Tayib Mohammad Hamid Al-Tikaina

Journal Sharia and Law

Labor in Sharia Law: The Sharia Law has laid down general rules, principles and regulating controls or restraints on economic activity and its revenue. Actually any activity in the individual’s and society's interest is deemed legal in Sharia Law if it is in accordance with these rules, which prohibit usury and any harmful produce, warn against gambling, cornering, cheating or any action leading to extortion or forcible exaction. Legal economic activity, according to Islam, is any mental, physical, industrial or any other action, which is conducive to development and the promotion of the quality of life. Islamic textual ...

Defining Who Is An Employee After A.B.5: Trading Uniformity And Simplicity For Expanded Coverage, Edward A. Zelinsky

Catholic University Law Review

A.B.5 made a significant but limited expansion of the coverage of California labor law but at a notable cost. Even as A.B.5 broadened the reach of the Golden State’s labor protections, A.B.5 also made the definition of “employee” more complex and less uniform. Those seeking federal or state legislation like A.B.5 confront the same trade-off under which greater coverage is achieved at the expense of more complexity and less uniformity in the definition of who is an employee. The same political forces and policy considerations which molded A.B.5 in ...

Whose Choice?: The Future Of Construction (And Maybe All) Labor Law, Michael J. Hayes

Catholic University Law Review

The current National Labor Relations Board ("Board') since 2018 has indicated an interest in changing the law on employee representation by unions in the construction industry, culminating in a final rule issued on April 1, 2020. As the article discusses, this proposal is likely to have effects in many industries other than construction, because many other industries in the U.S. are becoming more like the construction industry has long been. The Board’s rule has changed what's required for a construction union to remain the representative of a construction employer's employees, which the Board justified as serving ...

Tenth Circuit Ruled In Favor Of Sex-Plus-Age Claims Of Discrimination Under Title Vii In The Wake Of Bostock V. Clayton County, Kayla King

Boston College Law Review

On July 21, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Frappied v. Affinity Gaming Black Hawk, LLC held that sex-plus-age discrimination claims are cognizable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. By taking a stance on the viability of sex-plus-age claims, the Tenth Circuit became the first circuit court to weigh in on the debate among the lower courts. Many federal district courts, relying on the availability of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act to address age discrimination claims, have rejected sex-plus-age claims under Title VII. This Comment argues that the Tenth ...

Vicarious Liability For Mine Safety And Health Violations, William K. Doran

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Professional Insufficiency As A Ground Of Dismissal From A Public Post: “A Study Of The Decisions Of The French Council Of State & The Administrative Appealate Courts”, Musa Shehada

Journal Sharia and Law

The aim of this study is to examine the professional insufficiency as a ground of a decision of the French Council of State and the Administrative Appeallate Courts dismissing a public employee a part from the disciplinary measures.

The study indicated that the dismissal of a public employee for professional insufficiency is not restricted to the conduct and behavior exercised by that employee while discharging his job duties or his failure to have good relation with his superiors or colleagues. Due to the dangerous consequences of such dismissal the French lawmaker has provided for a number of guarantees to protect ...

Protecting The Privacy Of The Worker In Light Of The Development Of Modern Means Of Communication: A Comparative Study Of The Uae And French Laws, Pierre Mallet

Journal Sharia and Law

The concept of privacy has evolved a lot due to the tremendous scientific development that humanity has achieved in recent decades. The massive use of computers and the Internet in all areas has given rise to new aspects of privacy. This concept now concerns calls, personal photos, recordings, the use of social networks and personal conversations. Through this research, we want to inform the reader about the rules governing the protection of the privacy of an employee in the field of computer science in the light of the legal texts applied in UAE laws, or at least clarify the positions ...

National Institute Of Occupational Safety And Health: Limits Of Authority In Rulemaking Under The Federal Mine Safety And Health Act Of 1977, Michael T. Heenan, C. Gregory Ruffenach

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Establishing Union Liability For Unauthorized Strikes, Glenn C. Van Bever

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.

Reflection On The Philosophy Behind The Exemption To Notice Of Employment Termination A Study In The Light Of The Jordanian Labour Law 1996, Firas Kasassbeh

Journal Sharia and Law

Under the Jordanian Labour Act 1996, it is not permissible for the employer to terminate the employee’s contract without giving the labourer/ employee at least one month notice before the date of termination. This is because sudden dismissal may cause hardship on the employee such as finding him/herself unemployed. However, there are cases where the employer is exempted from giving such notice due to either the nature of the contract (such as in the case of definite period contracts and the case of employment under probation), or the nature of termination (such as in the cases where the ...

The Impact Of Sebben In Federal Black Lung Litigation, Elizabeth Hopkins

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.

The Surprising Cost Of Benefits: The Legislative History Of The Federal Black Lung Benefits Program, Jonathan P. Nase

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.

Hybrid Federalism And The Employee Right To Disconnect, Paul M. Secunda

Pepperdine Law Review

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) administers specific workplace and health standards that generally and expressly preempt the entire field of workplace safety and health law. However, where such federal OSHA standards do not exist or states have developed their own approved OSHA plans, OSHA does not merely set a regulatory floor either. A type of “hybrid federalism” has been established, meaning a strong federal-based field preemption approach to labor and employment law issues, but tied to a conflict preemption approach. Applying this hybrid preemption approach to the employee right to disconnect problem provides the best opportunity to ...

Drug And Alcohol Abuse In Mining: An Employer's Dilemma, Barbara L. Krause

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.

Current Issues In The Law Of Discrimination And Miners' Rights Under The Federal Mine Safety & Health Act Of 1977, Thomas C. Means

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.

Dent V. Nfl Lmra 301 Preemption – The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Throws A Penalty Flag On The Nfl, Justin C. Trimachi

Golden Gate University Law Review

Part I of this Note will discuss the procedural history of the case, the Ninth Circuit’s application of the two-pronged test to determine if LMRA 301 preempted the players’ state-law claims, the facts of Dent v. NFL, and finally a brief history of the NFL and its usage of CBAs. Part II will give a brief overview of the Supreme Court’s development of LMRA 301 jurisprudence as well as its rulings on when LMRA 301 should preempt state-law tort claims. Part III will discuss the decisions by the Eighth Circuit in Williams and by the Eleventh Circuit in ...

Rittmann V. Amazon.Com, Inc.: Ninth Circuit Rules Amazon’S Drivers Fall Within The Federal Arbitration Act’S “Transportation Worker Exemption”, Isabella Borges

Golden Gate University Law Review

Amazon is among a large list of corporations that have long tried to enforce mandatory arbitration against delivery drivers who file suit in their respective jurisdictions. In recent years, delivery drivers have decided to fight back against private arbitration and to have their legal battles heard in court. In these cases, delivery drivers argue that they are exempt from arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) because they are engaged in interstate commerce. Section 1 of the FAA exempts from arbitration “contracts of employment of seaman, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce ...

Contractual Liberty In Labor Legislation “The Crisis Of Labor Contract” A Comparative Study Of Syrian And French Laws, Mohammed Arfan Al-Khatib

Journal Sharia and Law

This research aims to study the distinctiveness of contractual liberty in labor legislation through analyzing its social and economic as well as legal essence. The research sheds light on the value this freedom was given in the French labor legislations and projects the French experience on the current Syrian legislations with a view to better the last. This paper also connects the analysis of the origin of this freedom in a comparative approach to both the French and the Syrian laws, drawing on the French experience and the specific steps taken by the French legislator in this regards. To that ...