Labor and Employment Arbitrator

A blog edited by Arbitrator Mitchell Rubinstein which is designed to inform employers, unions, individuals, and lawyers about my practice and about recent developments in the field of labor and employment law. Mitchell Rubinstein is a labor arbitrator and handles business and commercial arbitrations before FINRA.

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Challenge to NYS Tenure Survives a Motion to Dismiss

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In Davids v. State , ____A.D. 3d____ (1st Dep't. March 28, 2018), Plaintiffs in this consolidated appeal brought an action claiming th...

Monday, August 14, 2017

Retired Employee Looses Tenure Protection

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Richardson v. City of New York , ___F. Supp. 2d ___(S.D.N.Y. Feb. 23, 2017), is an interesting case concerning the interaction of a retireme...

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Importance of Remorse In Employee Discipline Cases

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I bring Matter of Vagianos v. City of New York , ___A.D.3d___(1st Dept. June 13, 2017) to your attention to illustrate an important point. ...

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Discharge of Tenured Teacher is Sustained, But Could The Teacher Have Done Something Different?

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Morales v. NYC Department of Education, ___A.D.3d___(3rd Dep't. May 11, 2017), is an example of a typical decision sustaining the decis...

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Education Law 3020-a Decision Finding of Misconduct Bars Unemployment Insurance

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Under New York law, if an employee is terminated for misconduct, they generally are not entitled to unemployment insurance. The issue of wha...

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Mitchell H. Rubinstein: Queens, New York, United States; Welcome. I am a labor and employment arbitrator as well as a mediator. I primarily handle labor-management disputes and employment law disputes. I act as a fact finder in collective bargaining matters and serve as a hearing officer in Civil Service law and other hearings. I also conduct impartial investigations on behalf of employers, unions and individuals. I have over thirty-years of experience practicing labor, employment, and education law in both the public and private sectors. I have represented hundreds of individual clients, labor unions and corporations. Additionally, I am a public arbitrator with FINRA. I also an adjunct professor of law New York Law School here I have taught classes on labor and employment law.

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