Law Memo / Ross’ Employment Law Reviews

This is a wide-ranging, clear and concise employment blawg, summarizing recent articles of interest by various authors. It is written for the practitioner by a retired law professor. This is one of eight employment- (and U.S. Supreme Court-) related blawgs on the Law Memo portal site.

Author: Ross Runkel, a professor emeritus at Willamette University College of Law in the Portland, Oregon area, taught on employment topics and still serves as a neutral in employment-related cases.

Blawg Related Categories: Labor & Employment • Law Practice Management • Law Professors • Willamette University • Law Professor • Legal Information

Recent Posts from Law Memo / Ross’ Employment Law Reviews

Is a rat a secondary picket?
Is a Giant Inflatable Rat an Unlawful Secondary Picket Under Section 8(b)(4)(ii)(B) of the National Labor Relations Act? That's the title of a fascinating article at 28 Cardozo Law Review 1519 (2006) written by Tzvi…
Federal Arbitration Act - Misconstruction
Here's an assault on the US Supreme Court's cases dealing with the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), by Professor Margaret L. Moses at Loyola University of Chicago. To be published in Florida State University Law Review,…
The Global Workplace
Coming in 2007: The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases & Materials by Roger Blanpain, Susan Bisom-Rapp, William Corbett, Hilary Joseph and Michael Zimmer. With the forces of globalization as a backdrop,…
FLSA actions threaten public sector employers
Preventive Measures For Public Employers by Peter Brown and David Urban discusses four types of FLSA cases frequently brought against public employers. They also provide five useful ways to prevent FLSA lawsuits. Here's the first…
Expanding liability for retaliation
A lot has been written on Burlington Northern v. White. Here's a useful addition: U.S. Supreme Court Expands Employer Liability for Retaliation by Thomas J. Flaherty and George S. Howard. Here's the lead paragraph: The…
Death of Labor Law?
The Death of Labor Law? by Cynthia L. Estlund, Professor of Law at New York University Law School, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 2, December 2006. Here is a provocative article that…
Union Immunity From Suit in New York
Frankly, it never occurred to me that a labor union could be "immune" from lawsuits. In New York labor unions are, for the most part, immune from legal liability - a strange situation brought about…
Litigating the Maternal Wall
Family Responsibility Discrimination (FRD) is what it's called. Workers claiming they were discriminated against because of their responsibilities as family caregivers. Litigating the Maternal Wall: U.S. Lawsuits Charging Discrimination Against Workers With Family Responsibilities by…
Enforcing employee handbook promises
In the old days, say around 1970, one could safely say that employees were "at will." Then courts began to interpret employee handbooks as creating contractually enforceable promises. It was good deal for some employees.…
ERISA - Attorney Conflicts of Interest
Can corporate counsel act in the dual role of representing a company in both (1) the company's role as an employer and (2) the company's role as an ERISA plan fiduciary? Does this raise a…