3rd Quarter (2003)
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In This Issue (available as a Acrobat Reader PDF, to download Acrobat Reader please click on the icon ):

BEINSAXELROD: On the Job

Legislative Watch:
Your Lawmakers At Work

• Georgia Senator Introduces Mischievous Legislation Targeting Teamster Pension Plans
• Overtime Overhaul Overturned
• Pentagon Continues Its Assault On Workers
  

Recent Cases In The Workplace:
You Be The Judge

Labor:

• NLRB Finds That Individual’s Concerted Speech At Public Meeting About Company’s Apprenticeship Program Was Disparaging of Employer and Took the Employee Outside the Protections of The Act
• D.C. District Court Rejects AFGE’s Suit To Permit Baggage Screeners To Unionize
• FLRA Rules That Certain Employees Of The Social Security Administration Cannot Unionize Because of National Security Concerns
• NLRB Holds That Election Agreement That Is Silent About The Inclusion Of Jointly Employed Workers Is “Latently Ambiguous”
• And More...

ERISA/Benefits:

• Federal Court Permits Claimant To Use Court Reporter To Take Verbatim Transcript in Appeal Before Board of Trustees
• Tax Lien on Individual Does Not Take Priority Under Former Spouse’s QDRO Interest
• And More...

Individual Employment Rights:

• Third Circuit Finds Mandatory Arbitration Agreement To Be Unconscionable
• Adding Insult To Injury — MS Supreme Court Allows Employers to Fire Employees for Filing Workers Compensation Claims
• Court Sanctions EEOC For Failing to Conciliate Ninth Circuit Reverses Course On Mandatory Arbitration
• And More...

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