Following the failure of a 2009 initiative to ban the enforcement of non-competition agreements, the Massachusetts legislature is now considering a bill to limit their applicability. The bill now winding its way through the legislative process would require, among other things, that non-compete agreemetns: 1. Be written in a stand-alone format that both employer and employee [...]
April 14, 2010 – 12:32 pm
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has hit United Parcel Service with a second substantial judgment for discriminating against a Massachusetts employee. This time, the complaint was for handicap bias by UPS in Springfield, Massachusetts. After a trial at the MCAD, UPS was ordered to pay almost $750,000 in lost wages and another $125,000 in emotional distress. The [...]
Sometimes litigants learn the hard way that the judicial system doesn’t always dispense justice as well as it merely settles disputes. With arbitration, that lesson can be particularly harsh, since arbitrators aren’t required to follow the same rules as judges and, in almost every case, their decisions cannot be appealed. For this reason, the choice of an arbitrator to decide your lawsuit requires extreme care. The [...]
