Report of a study of 207 arbitration awards published in Labor Arbitration Reports from 1950-1955 in which discharged employees were reinstated. Management and labor officials involved in the cases were…

A statistical examination of the effects of reinstatement on the employee’s behavior and the behavior of other employees, and its effects on the management-union relationship. Seniority and the terms of…

The author raises a number of back pay questions including how back pay should be computed; whether a discharged employee has a duty to seek other employment; whether certain deductions…

Some arbitrators equate their remedy power with that of a court dealing with a suit for breach of contract, and award actual damages, restitution, and equitable remedies, unless proscribed by…

An examination of arbitrators’ acceptance (or rejection) of evidence of post-discharge conduct and of later-acquired pre-discharge conduct. Arbitrator Nicolau applies a test of fair warning: If the evidence is revealed…

A review of research on the relationship – between seniority and job performance – after reinstatement in discharge cases. The arbitral rationale for treating seniority as a mitigating factor in…

The payment of money damages, rather than reinstatement, is the prevailing remedy in non-union wrongful termination cases, and also in industrialized democracies other than North America. Professor Rehmus observes that…

A survey of HR managers and labor relations personnel indicated that 86% of the employees who were reinstated after discharge were still employed, and had not engaged in recidivism. The…