Under the Labor Code, voluntary arbitration is a mode of settling labor disputes involving unresolved grievances arising from the interpretation or implementation of the Collective Bargaining ...

The Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) arbitration program for small rate disputes will not go forward as written in its Dec. 19, 2022, rule. On Dec. 19, 2022, the STB adopted a final rule to ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has adopted two rules establishing new rate reasonableness procedures that provide two streamlined approaches for shippers and railroads to resolve smaller rate ...

Two rulemakings to establish rate reasonableness processes for small rate disputes are moving forward, the Surface Transportation Board (STB) reported on Nov. 15. STB said it issued concurrently a ...

As the Newton teachers strike enters its eighth day, patience is wearing thin for teachers, the school committee, and parents and students. The best way to reopen the schools, of course, would be for ...

A spate of recent battles over arbitration agreements may force courts and lawmakers to once again tackle who can enter one on behalf of a nursing home resident — and whether they can ever be mandated ...

The US Supreme Court this week refused to hear arguments that nursing homes should be able to require pre-dispute arbitration agreements, clearing the way for enforcement of stiff new arbitration ...