Law Roundtable

The very fine Global Pensions site has an article today featuring a study by Mercer on the current deficits being run by Fortune 1500 company pensions: Pension plans of S&P1500 companies are shouldering deficits of a combined $506bn, the largest...

ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law Volume 25, Number 3 (Spring 2010) Articles: Christopher Hexter, Wesley Kennedy, Alexia Kulwiec, Peter Janus, Todd Sarver, and Steven Wheeless, Twenty-five Years of Developments in the Law under the National Labor Relations Act,...

Jeff posted Tuesday on the Obama NLRB, noting how shocked -- shocked! -- Member Schaumber is that the Obama Board is reversing Bush II Board precedent (which of course reversed Clinton Board precedent, which reversed Bush I / Reagan Board...

This is round #2 of what will probably be several posts on notable NLRB decisions that are being officially issued as Member Schaumber's term expired. Here's today's installment: Int'l Assoc. of Machinists -- addressing whether union can require employees to...

As we've noted, the FLRA has had major morale issues for quite some time, although things started looking up recently. Apparently the new efforts are working, as the FLRA was the most improved agency in the new best places to...

Some of the last cases in which Member Schaumber took part in are now coming out, and there's some interesting ones. Here are a few notables: UGL-UNNICO -- granting review of election decision as means to reconsider successor bar doctrine...

Zak Kramer (Arizona State) writes to tell us that Arizona State is once again hosting its Aspiring Law Professors Conference for fellows, VAPs, clerks, and other law professor hopefuls. Here are some detail from the conference flyer: Designed for Visiting...

About 500 Coca-Cola employees went on strike last Monday over charges of employee surveillance, intimidation, and bad faith bargaining. A day later, Coke responded by cutting off the strikers' health care coverage. Coke's rationale, I assume, is that "benefits, like...

Meredith M. Render, Gender Rules, 22 Yale J. L. & Feminism 133 (2010). Michael G. Heyman, The Time Has Come for the United States to Ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 9 Wash....

In a recent opinion out of the D.C. Circuit,Aliotta v. Bair, the court found inadequate the plaintiff’s statistical showing of age impact during a reduction in force by the FDIC. The plaintiffs argued both systemic disparate treatment and disparate impact,...