Every year as May 1 approaches, Connecticut school districts are confronted with an unpleasant, albeit familiar, process. For better or worse, teacher non-renewal is a fact of life under the Teacher Tenure Act and the...more
4/25/2023
/ Budgets ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employee Retention ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Layoffs ,
School Districts ,
Teachers ,
Tenure ,
Termination
As we turn the page to 2023 it’s as good a time as ever to review one of the most important concepts in unemployment compensation – “wilful misconduct.” From an employer’s perspective understanding when the wilful misconduct...more
The Trump-era National Labor Relations Board has struck again. On July 21, 2020 in General Motors LLC, 14-CA-197985, 369 NLRB No. 127 (2020), the NLRB overruled longstanding precedent and rejected “setting-specific”...more
7/29/2020
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Disciplinary Proceedings ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
General Motors ,
Hiring & Firing ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Offensive Language ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Section 7 ,
Unfair Labor Practices
It’s been almost exactly a year since Public Act 16-67 – officially entitled “An Act Concerning the Disclosure of Certain Education Personnel Records, Criminal Penalties for Threatening in Educational Settings and the...more