The Supreme Court agreed to review three more employment cases addressing: (1) whether an arbitration clause in a collective bargaining agreement can apply to statutory issues as well as contract issues; (2) whether a union may charge non-union members for litigation costs expended on behalf of the union members; and (3) how a divorcing spouse may waive rights to the other spouse’s ERISA pension benefits. Richard Bales has a good analysis of the arbitration issue at the Workplace Prof Blog and Paul Mollica reports on it at Daily Developments in EEO Law.
Providence Health & Services Ordered to Pay Over $229 Million in Landmark Wage Violation Verdict
Jury finds systemic wage violations for more than 33,000 hourly employees in Washington state based on unlawful timeclock rounding and second meal period violations. SEATTLE, WA — The judgment in Bennett, et. al v. Providence Health & Services, was entered in King County Superior Court today, the culmination of a
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