Recent Blog Articles of Note

By Jim Cline

We are following other Labor and Employment Law Blogs on the Web and will bring to your attention some other articles worth reading. Here are some other articles we think are worth a look:

 

Includes a detailed discussion, with background materials over the City of Portland “public policy” challenge to the order by Arbitrator Jane Wilkinson to reinstate a Portland police officer involved in a lethal force situation

Discusses Recent Ninth Circuit Decision in Busk v. Integrity Staffing Solutions, holding that on shift security screenings constituted compensable “work” under the FLSA

 Discusses the settlement of two LAPD officers based on repeated vulgar comments

 Discusses pending Chicago Police Department FLSA lawsuit involving “unwritten” rule that officers were expected to checked their e-mails off duty

 New Jersey becomes the sixth state to restrict employer access to social media accounts

 Discusses refusal of Massachusetts court to set aside an arbitrator’s award reinstating an Worchester, Massachusetts officer discharged for losing his license to carry a firearm — unusual case that turned on past occasions of Worchester PD to waive firearm requirement