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Discussion of the territorial scope of the New Zealand Wages Protection Act in Mehta v Elliot (Labour Inspector). The authors argue that the territorial scope of all New Zealand statutes should be addressed by Parliament as a matter of course. As Judge Colgan pointed out in Mehta, this issue...
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Policy debate rages over mandatory employment arbitration. Using a unique database of American Arbitration Association employment dispute awards, this article compares court-tried employment cases and arbitrated employment claims. It compares adjudicated and arbitrated outcomes in the class of...
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This article discusses the Supreme Court's 2002 Hoffman Plastic Compounds opinion, normally considered in terms of its social justice ramifications, from the different perspective of NLRB attorneys tasked with pursuing enforcement of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) under the conceptually...
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This article summarizes in detail all decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States from its October 2018 Term (2018-2019) that affect employment law, labor relations, employment arbitration and the employment relationship generally. The article also provides commentary on each of the...
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Employment Protection Legislation widened the definition of fair economic dismissals in Spain. In this paper we look at Labor …
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The traditional means by which workers asserted their collective rights was the union movement, but that has been in severe decline in the private sector. Class action lawsuits would appear to be the ideal modern substitute. There have been a few noteworthy successes for employees in the last...
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The paper analyses the arbitration of dismissal disputes by Australian labour courts over a 15 years' time span characterized by two major legal reforms to unfair dismissal statutes. We isolate two channels by which we think the social values of the Federal government affected the decisions of...
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There has been an explosion of labour contract disputes in China. The authors surveyed participant demographics, experience and opinions concerning the arbitration of these disputes under the local government Labour Dispute Arbitration Bureau (LAB) in the city of Dalian, Liaoning Province....
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Seit Bestehen des Kuendigungsschutzgesetzes wird in Politik, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft ueber seine potenziellen Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt und die Beschaeftigung diskutiert. Das Kernstueck und zugleich den zentralen Streitpunkt bei einer Vielzahl betriebsbedingter Kuendigungen bilden...
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Hoffman Plastics, the poster child of immigration gone wrong, is popularly viewed as a case that imposed penalties unique to immigrant workers. The Supreme Court decision in Hoffman Plastics can relieve an employer that illegally fires an undocumented worker from owing back pay for violations of...
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