News

Employee Free Choice Act Update

Here’s the latest update on the Senate negotiations on EFCA. As expected, it comes down to figuring out what the moderate Democrats in the Senate will support. For more information of the various parts of the bill, see Narendra’s paper on… Read More
Read More

Unemployment Data

Although there’s lots of happy talk about the economy turning around, and the big banks are apparently minting money, the situation for ordinary workers is still perilous. The long-term unemployment rate — the proportion of the labor force th… Read More
Read More

Today's Workers' Compensation Opinion by the NC Court of Appeals

Leggett v. AAA Cooper Transportation, Inc.: A workers’ compensation case can involve a separate personal injury case against a third party (not the employer) if the third party was responsible for the employee’s injury. When such personal… Read More
Read More

Another Serious Labor Violation

The Fourth Circuit affirms the granting of some injunctive relief to remedy, after much delay, very serious labor violations by a mining company in NLRB v. Pharmacy high fresno and there are kamagra gold forum some new australianedmeds stuff out, it… Read More
Read More

UFCW Local 1208 successfully Negotiates Contract at Smithfield

Smithfield Packing Company and the bargaining committee of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1208 reached a tentative agreement on a first contract for the workers at the Tar Heel pork processing facility. More coverage is avaliable… Read More
Read More

Michael Okun elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers

Read More

Narendra Speaks at NCBA CLE on Labor Law and the Employee Free Choice Act

Narendra Ghosh spoke at the North Carolina Bar Association’s 2009 Fundamentals of Employment Law CLE, which was held in Greensboro. He was part of a duo presenting an overview of the National Labor Relations Act and the possible changes to it f… Read More
Read More

Patterson Harkavy Prevails for Plaintiff in a Significant Constitutional Decision by the NC Supreme Court

In a unanimous decision, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the plaintiff could pursue his constitutional claims against the local board of education in Craig v. New Hanover County Board of Education. Jusitce Hudson, writing for the Court, h… Read More
Read More

Patterson Harkavy Prevails in NC Supreme Court in Helm v. Appalachian State University

Read More

Today's Workers' Compensation Opinion by the NC Supreme Court

Read More