Legislature may require injured state ferry workers to bring claims against the State to the Workers Comp Board, not to court.
In 2003, the Alaska legislature amended AS 09.50.250 and thereby a) restored the state’s sovereign immunity from suit by injured state-employed seamen (employees of the Alaska Marine Highway System), and b) referred claims by such employees […]
To encourage an ex-employee to comply with a non-disclosure or a non-compete provision in a separation agreement, consider this proposal from an attorney:
I suggest that any severance payment be made over time rather than in a lump sum. That gives the business the opportunity to stop payment if there is a problem and the former […]
The New York Times Magazine for Sunday the 20th carried an article entitled “Unintended Consequences: Why do well-meaning laws backfire?” by the authors of Freakonomics, Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. One example of such laws, they say, is the Americans with Disabilities Act, relying on the article in the Journal of Political Economy by Daron […]
