Adjunct Law Prof Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-13032202009-07-16T00:01:36-04:00A Member of the Law Professor Blogs NetworkTypePadAdjunctLawProfBloghttp://feedburner.google.comArticle On Alcoholics, Convicts, Drug Addicts In The Workplace tag:typepad.com,2003:post-680489092009-07-16T00:01:36-04:002009-06-12T17:17:07-04:00Law Relating To Alcoholics, Convicts, Drug Addicts In The WorkplaceDownload Alcoholics-convicts-drug-addicts-in-the-workplace is an interesting May 19, 2009 New York Law Journal article by Louis Pechman. The article, written by a New York attorney, does a nice job summarizing New York...Adjunct LawProfsAmbigious Unit Stipulationstag:typepad.com,2003:post-679684512009-07-16T00:01:04-04:002009-07-16T00:01:04-04:00Regional Emergency Medical Services, 354 NLRB No. 20 (May 21, 2009), deals with an important principal of labor law. How should the Board deal with a situation where it is unclear whether an employee should be included within a stipulated...Adjunct LawProfsBipartisan Civil Rights Tax Relief Act Is Reintroducedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115710b9d61970c2009-07-15T09:09:36-04:002009-07-15T09:09:36-04:00he Civil Rights Tax Relief Act (CRTRA), HR.3035/S.1360, a bill that would exclude compensatory damages in employment and civil rights cases from the definition of gross income for income tax purposes, has been reintroduced in the House and Senate. The...Adjunct LawProfstag:typepad.com,2003:post-681240172009-07-15T09:07:05-04:002009-07-15T09:07:05-04:00Cravath, a Top Law Firm, to Pay New Hires to Delay Startis is an interesting June 12, 2009 article from the N.Y. Times. It reports that Cravath is willing to pay associates $80,000 to delay there start year for a...Adjunct LawProfsMinimum Wage To Increase To $7.25 effective July 24, 2009tag:typepad.com,2003:post-681227852009-07-15T09:06:21-04:002009-07-15T09:06:21-04:00Employers beware. The federal minimum wage increases from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. Hat Tip: Juz The Fax MItchell H. RubinsteinAdjunct LawProfsRostron & Allen: Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journalstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011572030473970b2009-07-14T09:49:24-04:002009-07-14T09:49:24-04:00Allen Rostron and Nancy Levit have submitted "Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals" to the Social Science Research Network. Here is the abstract: This document contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the...Adjunct LawProfsCo-worker with different supervisor is appropriate comparator under Title VIItag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115710b7859970c2009-07-14T00:02:00-04:002009-07-14T00:02:00-04:00Lee v Kansas City S Ry Co, ___F.3d___(5th Cir. June 30, 2009), is an important decision to be aware of. The 5th held that a white coworker was an appropriate comparator to a discharged African-American train engineer even though they...Adjunct LawProfs6th Holds Cost-Splitting Requirement In Employment Unenforceable. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-680479672009-07-14T00:01:00-04:002009-06-12T16:53:52-04:00Mazera v. Varsity Ford, ___F.3d___(6th Cir. May 19, 2009), is a major employment arbitration decision. The plaintiff attempted to bring a race discrimination case and the employer moved to compel arbitration based upon a provision in the Employee Handbook.The district...Adjunct LawProfs7thCir: No ADA claim for physician fired for making threats of physical violencetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115718cd1c3970b2009-07-14T00:01:00-04:002009-07-14T00:01:00-04:00Sometimes you just cannot make these cases up. Bodenstab v Cook County, ___F.3d___(7th Cir. June 22, 2009), is one such case. The 7th held that a hospital did not violate the ADA when it discharged an anesthesiologist who allegedly threatened...Adjunct LawProfsInjunction of state rule requiring pharmacists to fill drugs was overbroadtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0115710b8da2970c2009-07-14T00:01:00-04:002009-07-14T00:01:00-04:00I am surprised that we have not heard much about Stormans, Inc v Selecky, ____F.3d____(9th Cir. July 8, 2009). The 9th held that a district court abused its discretion by enjoining the Washington State Board of Pharmacy from enforcing its...Adjunct LawProfsLive Coverage of Confirmation Hearings For Sonia Sotomayortag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01157104a374970c2009-07-13T00:02:00-04:002009-07-13T00:02:00-04:00The Senate Confirmation Hearings start today for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. For those with time, confirmation hearings are very interesting to watch. Live TV coverage is not being carried by the major networks. However, gavel to gavel coverage is available over...Adjunct LawProfsBrian Hayes Republican Nominated To NLRB tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571f4dded970b2009-07-13T00:01:00-04:002009-07-13T00:01:00-04:00President Obama has nominated Republican Brian Hayes to the NLRB. As readers know, traditionally, the President's party holds 3 seats and other party holds 2. Workplace Prof Blog reports that now all 3 NLRB Members have been nominated (there are...Adjunct LawProfsObama To Meet With Union Leaderstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571f4f49e970b2009-07-13T00:01:00-04:002009-07-13T00:01:00-04:00In a move that signals the Administration's support for unions, Steven Greenhouse of the NY Times reported that President Obama will be meeting with about a dozen union leaders. The article reports that likely topics are the Employee Free Choice...Adjunct LawProfsCalifornia Supreme Court Adopts Title VII Standards For Sexual Harassment Restrictions On Professional Relationships tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011571f900c1970b2009-07-13T00:01:00-04:002009-07-12T11:30:40-04:00Standard Established For Sexual Harassment Within Professional Relationships is an important National Law Journal article for California attorneys. California's Civil Code Section 51.9, prohibits sexual harassment in certain business relationships outside the workplace, such as those involving attorneys and their...Adjunct LawProfsRecession and Law Schoolstag:typepad.com,2003:post-681033972009-07-12T00:01:00-04:002009-07-12T00:01:00-04:00Recession Crimps Plans For New Law Schools is an interesting June 1, 2009 article from the National Law Journal. It is about the effect the economy is having on planned new law schools. As you can imagine, the effect is...Adjunct LawProfsTop 100 Employment Law Blogstag:typepad.com,2003:post-681225872009-07-11T00:02:01-04:002009-07-11T00:02:01-04:00Delaware Employment Law complied a list of the top 100 Employment Law Blogs. This list should be very helpful to readers-even though they left one out! Their list is as follows: Affirmative Action Blog Spot Alaska Employment Law Boston Employment...Adjunct LawProfsEmployee Web Based E-Mail- A New Frontier??tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011570c70785970c2009-07-09T00:10:24-04:002009-07-09T00:10:24-04:00Investigating Personal Web Based E-Mail is an excellent June 26, 2009 law.com article. It correctly explains that the law is fairly settled with employee use of employer email. Employees almost never will have a cause of action. But what about...Adjunct LawProfsAttorney’s letter to witnesses in a grievance proceeding held an attempt to threaten or influence a witnesstag:typepad.com,2003:post-678495252009-07-09T00:09:55-04:002009-07-09T00:09:55-04:00Kalyanaram v New York Institute of Technology, 2009 NY Slip Op 04349, decided on June 4, 2009, Appellate Division, First Department After investigating complaints from 37 students alleging that Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, a member the New York Institute of Technology’s faculty...Adjunct LawProfsRandom Drug testing policy for school employees unconstitutionaltag:typepad.com,2003:post-678392512009-07-09T00:09:25-04:002009-07-09T00:09:25-04:00Jones v. Graham County Bd. of Educ., No. 08-477 (N.C. App. June 2, 2009), is an interesting North Carolina Court of Appeals case. The court held that a Board of Education policy requiring employees to submit to random, suspicionless drug-testing...Adjunct LawProfsStrike Could Threaten 2010 World Cuptag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef011570eb956f970c2009-07-09T00:08:34-04:002009-07-09T00:08:34-04:00A July 9, 2009 Associated Press article reported that South African construction workers recently went on strike and that strike could effect the 2010 World Cup. As the article states: Thousands of workers at stadiums across the country put down...Adjunct LawProfs