A police officer was terminated for unauthorized use of a law enforcement database. He sought his position back, and pursuant to Act 111 — the Police and Firemen Collective Bargaining Act — he and his employer engaged in arbitration. The arbitrator awarded the officer his position back, finding that the officer was treated disparately. The … Read more
A civil servant who worked for PennDOT posted to her Facebook account a rant about the poor performance of school bus drivers and her seemingly cavalier attitude toward running over small children. As a result, she was fired. She sued to get her job back. The Supreme Court noted that the government has a heightened … Read more
Two former employees of Milton Hershey School for discrimination and retaliation after they were fired. The school moved to compel arbitration under the collective bargaining agreement and the district court denied that motion. On appeal, the 3rd Circuit found that the state-law claims were still subject to the Federal Arbitration Act and that, in the … Read more
#LaborLaw #CollectiveBargaining #Contracts #SubjectMatterJurisdiction 4/20/2020 — A collective bargaining agreement between the teachers’ union and the town’s board of education decreased the total amount a retiring teacher can collect in accumulated unused sick leave. Pursuant to In re Local 195, 88 N.J. 393 (1982), the Court unanimously agreed that, under the scope-of-negotiations test, the courts … Read more