Employment Law Report

By Edwin S. Hopson

On November 13, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Streamlining Claims Processing for Federal Contractor Employees Act (H.R. 6371), moving the responsibility for wage claims adjustments for workers employed by federal contractors to the U.S. Department of Labor from the Government Accountability Office ...

By Edwin S. Hopson

On September 28, 2012, we reported that the U.S. Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, had announced that he and 41 other Senators had filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Noel Canning v. NLRB, Nos. 12-1115, 12-1153, challenging the constitutionality of the recess ...

By Debra H. Dawahare

The Kentucky Supreme Court usually does not consider unemployment cases, but made an exception in the recent matter of Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Commission et al v. Diana Cecil, 2012 WL 5273867 (Ky).  Claimant Cecil, who worked for the Louisville Water Company (“LWC”) from 2001 through 2005, was often late to work.  ...

by Leila G. O’Carra

The Sixth Circuit recently issued two opinions addressing retired employees’ claims to lifetime, unchangeable healthcare benefits. In both cases, the Sixth Circuit rejected the retirees’ claims.  In Reese v. CNH America LLC, Nos. 11-1359/1969, the parties’ collective bargaining agreement (CBA) promised ...