Mass Court Picks Pot Case to Remind Employers That Discussions of Accommodation Are Needed
A medical marijuana case set the table for Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court to remind employers that there needs to be discussion of accommodation whenever a worker claims to have a debilitating medical condition. The worker in Barbuto v Advantage Sales and Marketing LLC had a prescription from a doctor to treat Chron’s disease with medical… Read More »Mass Court Picks Pot Case to Remind Employers That Discussions of Accommodation Are Needed
Workers who collect worker’s comp payouts lose the right to sue their employer. Any other party who could be legally liable remains open to suit. (If the worker wins the tort case, it must repay worker’s comp for its outlays). Who enjoys this employers’ immunity from suit? The exclusive remedy of Worker’s Comp is exclusive… Read More »Joint Corporations Enjoy Comp Immunity
IPD/ Lean Construction Project Counsel Leadership Style
Construction teams are positioned on the frontier -leading the change in the way work gets done. A capable Project Counsel can create the setting. Presaging changes coming to construction, Bill Drayton the founder of Ashoka gave a Stanford Business School podcast Here is my summary of his talk. On a team, there is not one person… Read More »IPD/ Lean Construction Project Counsel Leadership Style
Healthy Spouses of Sick Spouses – Mass Bans Emlployers’ Discrimination
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court now recognizes claims for “associational discrimination” against employers who provide family health insurance and who fire healthy employees with very sick spouses when the firing is motivated by a hope to reduce health insurance premiums. The case Flagg v AliMed Inc. involved a worker whose wife had a brain tumor. The… Read More »Healthy Spouses of Sick Spouses – Mass Bans Emlployers’ Discrimination
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