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INTRODUCTION
During the 1980s the combination of world events and U.S. policy decisions by the "hawkish" administration of Ronald Reagan and the "re...
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In Dec 6, 2006, a Pennsylvania federal district court affirmed that not only does Pennsylvania law presume that all employment is at-will, and, therefore, an employee may be discharged for any reason or no reason, it also placed a heavy burden of proof on employees to overcome that presumption. This article argues that the at-will regime does not exclude judges from examining employer decisions. In addition, and far more important, it contends that it ill serves employers. If this is true, then it ill serves the economy and the national interests. The argument is that there is no empirical evidence that at-will employment has a positive effect on the economy. There is evidence that an at-will employment regime does not prevent litigation. There are reasons to believe that employers woul...
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[...] in one instance, I was notified in writing of the right to a hearing, but I had four hours to make that request. Among the grounds provided for such an action is retaliation for the employee's refusal to violate public policy or for reporting a violation of public policy; that the discharge was not for good cause after completion of the probationary period; or that the employer violated the express provisions of its own written personnel policy. [...] there was anecdotal evidence from business recruiters that the law actually helped attract employees.
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Former DuPont employees cannot sue the company for fraud because they were at-will, even though they were covered by a collective bargaining agreement that said they could not be fired "except for just cause," the 5th Circuit has ruled.
The workers were employees at a DuPont plant. Their CBA contained a detailed seniority system and said that they could only be terminated or suspended for just cause. It also said either side could cancel the agreement with 60 days' written notice.
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Operation JUST CAUSE, the invasion of Panama in 1989, was launched to apprehend and bring to justice Manuel Noriega, and retu...
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I want to talk about three holy wars. They aren't religious wars, but they're the three wars in American history that are sacrosanct, that you can't s...
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On May 21,1954, just days after Brown v. Board of Education declared public school segregation unconstitutional, Women's Political Council President Jo Ann Robinson unsuccessfully implored Montgomery Mayor W.A. GayIe to integrate public transportation. "Mrs. Jo Ann Robinson had spearheaded the fight against Jim Crow laws and customs since 1948," says Gwen Patton, an archivist and activist at H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College, which houses special collections of Montgomery's voting rights pioneers.
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CASE FACTS: Audrey Kuzyck was employed by West Penn Hospital System as an RN for 23 years. Until January 4, 2010, she worked at the psychiatric unit a...
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An Ontario judge has held that an employer which failed to train employees on its workplace violence rules did not have just cause to dismiss an emplo...
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A reasonable and lawful ground for action.
Appearing in statutes, contracts, and court decisions, the term just cause...