Whistleblowing has an important role to play in the functioning and evolution of democratic society.This paper identifies objectives for whistleblowing law, which have the overarching objective of serving the public interest. It then sets out potential statutory reforms to UK whistleblowing law...

The government pension crisis is making news headlines around the country. Contributing to the crisis is a common law of public pensions that diverges from general contract and employment principles. Nowhere is this contradiction more apparent than in California and the several states that have...

The article examines access to the labour courts in Israel during the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on the first year of the crisis. It shows that the labour courts managed to deliver the same number of judgments and decisions in 2020 as they did in previous years. In order to keep open during the...

The 1995 Employment Due Process Protocol, which suggested minimum procedural safeguards for employment arbitration agreements, was drafted in the early years of employment arbitration, before the drafters could anticipate many of the issues now facing the courts. This article discusses twenty...

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...

Much employment discrimination law is premised on a purely money-focused ldquo;reasonablerdquo; employee, the sort who can be made whole with damages equal to lost wages, and who does not hesitate to challenge workplace discrimination. This type of ldquo;rationalrdquo; actor populated older...

This Article utilizes the Administrative Office's data to convey the realities of federal employment discrimination litigation. Litigants in these quot;jobsquot; cases appeal more often than other litigants, with the defendants doing far better on those appeals than the plaintiffs. These...

Under the inevitable disclosure doctrine, a court may enjoin a person accepting employment with a direct competitor of a former employer to protect a trade secret. Most states that have adopted the doctrine do not limit its application. Such broad application of the doctrine can be harsh and...