Flaherty & Hood’s legislative team recently staffed the 2018 Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities Summer Conference. Nearly 100 elected officials, city staff members and other city leaders from 50 Greater
Flaherty & Hood shareholder attorney Brandon Fitzsimmons and associate attorney Erica Heikel led two labor and employee relations for the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities (CGMC). The seminars focused on
The annual fall conference of the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities (CGMC), which was led by Flaherty & Hood’s legislative team, saw record attendance this year. More than 115 elected
Flaherty & Hood shareholder attorney Brandon Fitzsimmons, human resources analyst Carol Loncar and associate attorney Erica Heikel led two labor and employee relations for the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities
Flaherty & Hood's legislative team recently staffed the 2016 Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities Summer Conference. Nearly 100 representatives from nearly 40 Greater Minnesota cities convened in Austin, Minn. on
Flaherty & Hood Shareholder Attorney Brandon Fitzsimmons and Human Resources Analyst Carol Loncar led two labor and employee relations for the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities (CGMC). The seminars focused
Flaherty & Hood recently staffed the 2015 Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities Summer Conference. Nearly 100 representatives from more than 35 Greater Minnesota cities headed to Duluth July 22-24 for
Flaherty & Hood, P.A. Shareholder Attorney Brandon Fitzsimmons and Human Resources Analyst Lucas Golliet coordinated and presented at the annual Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities Labor and Employee Relations seminars
Flaherty & Hood Shareholder Attorney Brandon Fitzsimmons successfully represented the City of Winona in a recent disciplinary grievance arbitration. This arbitration arose from a grievance filed by Law Enforcement Labor
Brandon Fitzsimmons has been selected for the second year in a row to Minnesota’s Super Lawyers-Rising Stars list for 2014. Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers
Flaherty & Hood's labor relations and employment law team now provides job classification, compensation and organizational services to local government units in Minnesota. Led by Attorney/Shareholder Brandon Fitzsimmons and Human
Flaherty & Hood attorney/shareholder Brandon Fitzsimmons successfully represented the City of Owatonna in a recent labor contract arbitration in which the arbitrator awarded a general wage increase for a law enforcement bargaining unit consistent with Owatonna’s internal wage pattern and denied the union’s request for a “market” wage increase in 2012 and 2013.
On behalf of the CGMC Labor and Employee Relations Committee, Brandon Fitzsimmons and Chris Hood led two Labor and Employee Relations Seminars this summer: May 31 in St. Peter and June 14 in Staples.
Flaherty & Hood, P.A. is pleased to announce that Brandon M. Fitzsimmons has been named as a shareholder attorney and elected to the Board of Directors.
Unions frequently submit grievances against employers claiming the employer violated a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) by changing and failing to follow a "past practice" without getting agreement from the union before taking the action.
To cut personnel costs and avoid layoffs, many employers are considering or have implemented "furloughs" (i.e., reducing normal hours worked without paying employees for such reduction).