Alaska Employment Law

Lemann solicits questions  
At the next Employment Law Section meeting, on November 7th, Catherine Lemann, the State Law Librarian, will discuss resources for researching employment law topics. 
If you have particular questions about legal research that you’d like Lemann to address, send your questions, by Monday afternoon, to Lemann, here: clemann@courts.state.ak.us
This site will post Lemann’s materials on Tuesday afternoon.

If an employer has an Employment Practices Liability Insurance policy, what event triggers the employer’s duty to notify the insurance company - an oral complaint, an internal grievance, notice of a charge with the EEOC, receipt of a Complaint?
The answer is that it depends on the definition of “claim” in the policy.  In a recent […]

Member claims against a union: The 9th Circuit has affirmed judgment against a union under both Title VII and DFR theories. 
DFR claim: The Court affirmed a trial court’s findings that a union had breached its duty by failing to file a timely grievance when the union has agreed to do so, and that such conduct substantially injured the […]