In the months leading up to the ill-fated vaccine-or-test mandate from OSHA, in effort to keep their employees and customers safer, many employers jumped on the opportunity to impose a mandate on employees to either test or get vaccinated. OSHA …
Non-Compete provisions have their utility: if an employer desires to keep its key employees from leaving at some point and stealing all of the clients they met as a result of their work with their original employer, a reasonable non-compete …
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Minnesota is on its way to becoming the 14th state in the United States to enact legal protection for the “culturally-appropriate” hair. As part of a nationwide effort for employers, landlords, and educational systems to be more inclusive of individuals’ …
For those businesses out there employing workers, you’ve likely had the complicating factor of employee accommodation come up at some point. If you’re experienced in the accommodation process, you recognize it as a vital, but sometimes frustrating exercise. If you …
For those unaware, the state of Minnesota is awash with money, and legislators are jockeying for the best way to spend the current surplus. With that, two massive bills have been introduced at the committee level, totaling over $2 billion. …
An arbitrator is the final judge of both law and fact. This is a statement made in hundreds of decisions regarding the decisions made by arbitrators during hearings. Under that premise, it is incredibly difficult for parties to contest the …
It’s always a great thing when employers and unions can work together to do something nice for their employees and members. It shows employees that both groups are there to support the employees and appreciate their service, and also demonstrates …
Collective bargaining agreements can’t be expected to take every situation that might occur in a workplace into consideration, and employers should never be expected to operate their organizations through negotiation of collective bargaining agreements. Most collective bargaining agreements leave those …
At the end of every year, we like to present a wrap-up of the year’s interest arbitration awards to give everyone a feel of “which way the wind is blowing” with arbitrators. Much as years passed, the wind seems to …
