The Joseph R. Rich Lecture Series
June 11, New York City
On June 11, IWS will hold the last colloquium of the year, which will deal with Paul Salvatore's recent important Supreme Court case. This event is co-sponsored by the Labor and Employment Law Programs. If you're interested in attending, please visit our website: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iwsPrograms/catalog/ws007.html
More about the program:
Summary: On April 1, 2009, the Supreme Court decided 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett, holding that unions can agree that employees will arbitrate all of their discrimination claims, rather than bringing these claims in court. In this hotly-contested 5-4 decision, the Court endorsed arbitration as a fair way for employees to have their discrimination claims decided.
The court held that the forum in which discrimination claims are heard is precisely the type of "condition of employment" that unions can bargain over with employers, and that courts generally should not interfere with these bargained-for exchanges. The Court's decision has major implications for the future of arbitration in unionized workforces, and may have a significant impact on the role of unions in workplace discrimination claims.
Moderator: Samuel Estreicher, Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law, Co- Director, Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration and Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University School of Law.
Discussants: Jeffrey L. Kreisberg, Kreisberg & Maitland, LLP, attorney for the plaintiffs alleging discrimination.
Paul Salvatore, Proskauer Rose LLP, attorney for the employer, upholding the collective bargaining agreement.
Jay Waks, Partner, Litigation Department, Chair, Employment & Labor Law Practice, Kaye Scholer LLP.
Location: Cornell Club, 6 E. 44th Street, New York, NY
Time: 6:30-9 PM, dinner served.