Employment Law Newsletters

Arbitration - Labor Disputes

Arbitration and Its General Advantages

Federal Employment Merit System Principles

Most civilian federal workers are employed pursuant to a merit system. Initially created by the Civil Service Act of 1883, the merit system was originally administered by the Civil Service Commission. In 1978, Congress passed the Civil Service Reform Act, which eliminated the Civil Service Commission and created several new agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management.

Privacy in the Workplace

(General Overview of Tort Remedies)

Reporting and Disclosure Requirements for Labor Unions

Background

Unemployment Benefits - Protest -- Disqualification

The most frequent reasons for protest are those involving a protest against the payment of unemployment benefits chargeable against the employer because the claimant either voluntarily quit his employment or he was discharged for misconduct connected with his work. In regard to these bases of protests, the employer is in a unique position to know the facts because the employer was involved in the circumstances surrounding the discharge at the time it occurred and also because the facts will have occurred prior to the separation from the employer's employment of the claimant. Several other bases of protest (such as available to work and actively seeking work) are all items which may transpire subsequent to the date of separation from the employment and the circumstances of them may not even be within the knowledge of the employer.