LABOR LAW Supreme Court of Alaska (2023) Sammy Sawyer In State v. Alaska State Employees Ass’n/American Federation of State, County, 529 P.3d 547 (Alaska 2023), the supreme court held that neither the First Amendment nor the holding in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 (138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018)) required employers to obtain union members’ affirmative Continue Reading »
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW Peter Graham In Sumpter v. Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, 494 P.3d 505 (Alaska 2021), the Supreme Court held that workers’ compensation presumption analysis does not weigh the evidence presented during the first two stages of a workers’ compensation claim. (Id. at 514). Rather, the evidence a defendant introduces to Continue Reading »
In Public Safety Employees Association, AFSCME Local 803, AFL-CIO v. City of Fairbanks,[1] the supreme court held that a city council’s politically motivated rejection of a collective bargaining agreement is not a violation of Alaska’s Public Employer Relations Act (the Act). In 2013, the City of Fairbanks began negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with Continue Reading »
