(Summary prepared by Lise Gelernter, NAA member) On February 23, 2023, a federal district court judge in Maryland ordered Starbucks to reinstate a worker...
(Summary prepared by Douglas Bonney, NAA Member) In Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, Case No. 21-984, decided on February 22, 2023, the United...
by Lise Gelernter On December 8, 2022, the United States Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) rolled back a short-lived Trump-era interlocutory appeal...
(By Martin H. Malin, Professor Emeritus, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Arbitrator, and Member of the NAA.) On November 1, 2021, a judge of the Cook...
(By Paula Knopf, a labour relations and dispute resolution arbitrator and mediator and member of the NAA.) The Supreme Court of Canada has continued its...
Over the last few months the Federal Sector Arbitration Committee and the State and Local Public Sector Committee of the National Academy of Arbitrators issued...
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21 changed working conditions for millions of Canadians quickly and dramatically. Employers responded by requiring employees to...
By Lise Gelernter (Member, National Academy of Arbitrators) On March 4, 2021, the West Virginia Legislature approved a law that outlaws public employee...
In late January 2021, the Supreme Court issued a per curiam order in the Henry Schein v. Archer & White arbitrability case (No. 19-963), dismissing the...
The NAA's State and Local Public Sector Committee has issued its 2020 Annual Report. The Committee was created in April 2020 with the task of preparing an...