For the last few years, starting with the Court of Appeals decision in City of Richfield v. LELS, the possibility of having an arbitrator’s decision overturned as violative of public policy actually seemed attainable. However, with the Supreme Court’s overturning …
Last week, we discussed an arbitration award between ABM Industries and SEIU, where an arbitrator ruled that not only did the St. Paul and Minneapolis ordinances apply to an employer outside the two cities, but that the employer was not …
Many employers struggled with the Sick and Safe Leave ordinances created by the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. At their most basic, the ordinances provide for sick and “safety” (for victims of abuse or stalking) leave to be accrued …
As summer draws to a close, the Wiley Law Office is making its annual pilgrimage to attend the MPELRA Summer Conference! This year, we’re taking in a wealth of knowledge from a diverse cast of arbitrators from across the country, …
If you’ve worked in labor relations for any amount of time, you’ve become familiar with the Seven Tests of Just Cause. They have been the foundation of every disciplinary action taken in a unionized environment in some way, shape or …
Those who have worked in employee investigation and discipline matters in Minnesota understand that the data from the investigation only becomes public following the final disposition of any disciplinary action that arises from that investigation. If there is no disciplinary …
In the past, if an employer had portions of its building open to the public, even it had a strict no-solicitation policy, it had to allow union organizers into its public space. This access was granted after years of the …
Now that we’re done beating you over the head with our investigator nerdery, we’ll start getting back to the other things we love to do. This week: negotiations and interest arbitration. It’s been a slow year for interest arbitrations, with …
For those of you who follow us, hopefully you can recall parts I and II of our analysis of the Mueller report, one of the most important internal investigations in the last century. If you have not read them yet, …
As many of you readers are working in the public sector, it is most likely you aren’t working today, or tomorrow, so we will save our final post on the Mueller investigation for next week when everyone is back at …
