Labor and Employment Law Section

The section focuses on all traditional labor relations issues and matters arising in individual employment rights. A continuing legal education seminar on employment law issues is sponsored annually by the section, as is a regular newsletter.

Labor and Employment Law Leadership

Chair
Michael Rusie
Dollar General Corp
100 Mission Ridge
Goodlettsville, TN 37072
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mrusie@dollargeneral.com
(615)855-5157
Immediate Past Chair
Bill Fiala
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis...
511 Union Street Ste 2700
Nashville, TN 37219
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bill.fiala@wallerlaw.com
(615)850-8792
Vice-Chair
Michael Ewing
Frost Brown Todd LLC
150 3rd Ave So Ste 1900
Nashville, TN 37201
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mewing@fbtlaw.com
(615)251-5594

Labor and Employment Law News

Workers' Comp Overhaul Adopted; McNally Amendment Still Alive

By Allan Ramsaur on Thu, 04/11/2013 - 4:54pm

The bill (SB 200) to overhaul the workers’ compensation system, transfer responsibility to an administrative judiciary and narrow the range of discretion in the system received easy final passage in the state House today.

Meanwhile, budget deliberations, which will formally resume on Monday afternoon, continue to include the McNally amendment. With only one week likely left in the session, and most notice and other rules suspended, advocates must now expand their focus to all members of the Senate Finance Committee to try to head off quick adoption of the proposal by the chair.

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Unions Fight Workers’ Comp Overhaul

By Brittany Sims on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 4:08pm

Union groups on Monday blasted Gov. Bill Haslam’s plan to create a new workers’ compensation office and place it under the troubled the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the Tennessean reports. “We are calling on the governor to put the brakes on moving such a vital process for injured Tennessee workers into the most dysfunctional department in the state,” the Tennessee AFL-CIO Labor Council said in a statement. The bill, which has already cleared the Senate and is progressing in the House, would completely overhaul the workers’ comp program by moving claims out of the courts.

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