Labor and Employment Arbitrator: Statutory Violation

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Thursday, May 4, 2017

Public Employee Does Not Have To File Grievance Over Statutory VIolation

A fundamental part of labor and employment law is that an employee must exhaust his administrative remedies before proceeding in court. Typically, in the public sector the administrative remedy may be a grievance under the collective bargaining agreement.

Matter of PBA v. New York, ____A.D.3d___(3d Dep't. May 4, 2017), is an important case because it stands for the proposition that if the violation is one of law, a grievance does not have to be filed. As the court explained:

We find that the exhaustion of remedies principle is inapplicable and that the matter is ripe for judicial review. "[A] determination made by an administrative agency must first be challenged through every available administrative remedy before it can be raised in a [*2]court of law" (Matter of Hudson Riv. Val., LLC v Empire Zone Designation Bd., 115 AD3d 1035, 1037 [2014] [citations omitted]). However, this rule does not apply where "an administrative challenge would be futile or where the issue to be determined is purely a question of law" (id. at 1038; see Watergate II Apts. v Buffalo Sewer Auth., 46 NY2d 52, 57 [1978]).

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Mitchell H. Rubinstein's Accomplishments

Education

J.D. Hofstra University School of Law

B.S. Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Presently

-Hearing Officer, N.Y.C. Office of Administrative Trials & Hearings (“OATH”)

-Hearing Officer, N.Y.S. Education Dep’t., Office of Adult Career & Continuing Educational Services-Vocational Rehabilitation (“ACCES-VR”)

-Public Arbitrator-FINRA

-Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School

Formerly

-Employment Attorney, Sapir, Schragin, LLP (represented individuals)

-Senior Counsel, New York State United Teachers (“NYSUT”) (represented unions and union members)

-Adjunct Professor of Law, St. John’s Law School

-Labor Attorney, Trans World Airlines (“TWA”) (represented employer)

-Labor Associate, Breed, Abbott & Morgan (represented employers)

-Labor Associate, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson (represented employers)

Published Scholarship

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES

1. Employees, Employers and Quasi-Employers; An Analysis Of Employees & Employers Who Operate In The Borderland Of An Employer-Employee Relationship, 14 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 605 (2012).

2. Duty Of Fair Representation Jurisprudential Reform: The Need To Adjudicate Disputes In Internal Union Review Tribunals And The Forgotten Remedy Of Re-Arbitration, 42 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 517 (2009) (lead article).

3. Obama’s Big Deal; The 2009 Federal Stimulus; Labor And Employment Law At The Cross Roads, 33 Rutgers L. Rec. 1 (2009) (lead article).

4. A Lawyer’s Worst Nightmare: The Story Of A Lawyer And His Nurse Clients Who Were Both Criminally Charged Because The Nurses Resigned En Mass, 103 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 317 (2009).

5. Privacy Legal Issues In The Public Sector, 58th Ann. N.Y.U. Conf. on Lab., ch. 18, pp. 629-669 (Wolters Kluwer, Jonathan Remy Nash & Samuel Estreicher eds. 2010)(by invitation).

6. Sprint/United Co. v. Mendelsohn: The Supreme Court Appears To Have Punted On The Admissibility of “Me Too’ Evidence Of Discrimination. But Did It? 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 264 (2008)

6A. Reply To Professors David L. Gregory and Paul M. Secunda With Respect To The Significance Of Sprint/United Management Company v. Mendelsohn, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 387 (2008).

7. Parents As Quasi-Therapists Under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, 76 U. Cin. L. Rev. 899 (2008).

8. Is a Labor Relations Evidentiary Privilege Developing?,29 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 221 (2008).

9. Assignment of Labor Arbitration, 81 St. John’s L. Rev. 41 (2007).

10. Our Nation’s Forgotten Workers: The Unprotected Volunteers, 9 U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L. 147 (2006).

11. Union Immunity From Suit In New York, 2 N.Y.U. J. L. & Bus 641 (Summer 2006) (lead article).

12. Altering Judicial Review Of Labor Arbitration Awards, 2006 Mich. St. L. Rev. 235 (Summer) (lead article).

13. Advisory Arbitration Under New York Law: Does It Have A Place In Employment Law? 79 St. John’s L. Rev. 419 (Spring 2005).

14. A New York Court Recognizes A Labor Union Evidentiary Privilege, 9 The Labor Lawyer 595 (Fall 1993).

15. The Use of Predischarge Misconduct Discovered After An Employee’s Termination As A Defense In Employment Litigation, 24 Suffolk Univ. L. Rev. 1 (1990) (lead article).

16. The Affirmative Action Controversy, 3 Hofstra Lab. L. J. 111 (1985).

SHORTER PUBLICATIONS

1. A Peek at New York Defamation Law, 82 N.Y.S. Bar. J. 58 (Nov./Dec. 2010).

2. Attorney Labor Unions, 79 N.Y.S. Bar Journal 23 (Jan. 2007).

3. Public Sector Labor and Employment Law (2d Ed. 1998) (By Lefkowitz, Osterman & Townley).

4. Contributing Editor, Discipline And Discharge In Arbitration (BNA 1998)

5. Reciprocal Discovery In Teacher Discipline Proceeding Under Section 3020-a Of The Education Law, Vol. 23, No. 2, p. 23, Labor & Employment Newsletter (NYS Bar Ass’n. June 1998).

6. Labor Arbitration Under New York Law, 64 N.Y.S. Bar Journal 35 (Sept/Oct. 1992).

7. Refusal to Hire Overqualified Applicants May Age Discrimination, NYLJ, May 17, 1991 at 1

8. Don’t Burden The Employers, National Law Journal, Oct. 30, 1989, at 13, col. 1.

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Public Employee Does Not Have To File Grievance Over Statutory VIolation

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