Employment Law Report

By Kim Koratsky

            As the first Monday in October looms on the horizon, we ponder what the new U.S. Supreme Court term means for employers.  Labor & employment cases are certainly the majority of cases on federal dockets nation-wide.  Likewise, the U.S. Supreme Court will be considering a number of employment-related cases this term.  Among those cases are:

By Edwin S. Hopson

In United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 1506 (Eliason & Knuth of Arizona),, 355 NLRB No. 159 (2010), the National Labor Relations Board held that “bannering” by a union at locations associated with secondary employers did not constitute picketing nor was it sufficiently akin to picketing to constitute a threat or ...

By Mark C. Blackwell

Group health plans that are in place as of March 23, 2010 are “grandfathered” and many of the new health plan mandates applicable to new plans either do not apply, or do not apply until future years.  However, a number of new rules apply effective the first plan year that starts after Sept. 23, 2010, even if the group plan is ...

By George Miller

Wyatt attorneys Byron E. Leet, Lisa C. DeJaco, and Sara C. Veeneman recently obtained a final decision from the Kentucky Supreme Court on behalf of the Jefferson County Board of Education that is important for all school boards in Kentucky.  In Sajko v. Jefferson County Board of Education, et al, the court held that a teacher ...

By LaToi Mayo

An African-American plaintiff discharged for stealing confidential HR documents that he produced during an EEOC mediation session, presented sufficient evidence to support his Title VII and applicable state claim of racial harassment despite the employer’s eventual discharge of the harasser.  (Collins v. Saurecia ...