Employment Law Report

By David A. Calhoun

In an opinion published on May 16, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court held that private litigants cannot bring False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuits that are based upon information they learned from a federal agency’s written response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.  The basis of the Court’s holding in this case ...

By Edwin S. Hopson

On May 18, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board announced that its Regional Director inBuffalo,New Yorkhad issued a complaint alleging that a non-profit entity--Hispanics United ofBuffalo--that provides social services to low-income persons, has unlawfully fired five employees for criticizing working conditions ...

By George J. Miller

In further response to the decision of the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board to issue a complaint against the Boeing Company over its decision to assemble a certain number of 787 aircraft at a non-union facility in South Carolina and not to assemble them at unionized facility in Washington because of ...

By Edwin S. Hopson

On April 27, 2011, in a 5 – 4 decision, authored by Justice Scalia and joined in by Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Kennedy, Thomas and Alito, the U.S. Supreme Court in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. ____ (2011), held that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) preempted California law holding that an ...

By Edwin S. Hopson

On April 20, 2011, in a press release, the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon announced that the General Counsel had issued an unfair labor practice complaint against the Boeing Company alleging that it violated the National Labor Relations Act “by deciding to transfer a second production line to a non-union ...