Editor, 2007 Midwinter Meeting Report on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, Subcommittee on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (February 2007)

REPRESENTATIVE DECISIONS

Sweet Sue Kitchens/Sara Lee Foods Athens Facility and RWDSU, 120 L.A. (BNA) 54
     (July 2004) (discharge - absenteeism) 

City of Bartow, Florida and West Central Florida Police Benevolent Association, 121 L.A. (BNA) 798
     (June 2005) (demotion)     

Diageo North America, Inc. and Machinists Lodge No. 186, FMCS Case No. 061108-50984-1 (Sept. 2006) (discharge - sexual harassment) 

Broward County, Florida and Federation of Professional Employees, FMCS Case No. 059551 (Dec. 2006) (discharge - workplace violence) 

Metropolitan Police Dep't and Fraternal Order of Police/MPD Labor Committee, FMCS Case No. 06-01868 (June 2006) (suspension - off-duty conduct)

Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA and Goddard Engineers, Scientists and Technicians Ass'n, IFPTE Local 29, FMCS Case No. 04-51595 (August 2004) (pay grade promotion - increased duties)

L.B. Foster and Shopmen's L. 572, FMCS Case No. 03-08699 (August 2003) (overtime)

(Note: Full-text versions of ARB decisions are available on-line at the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges Internet Library.)

Phoenix Field Office, BLM, ARB No. 01-010, 2001 WL 767573 (June 2001) pdf  html

U.S. Postal Service ANET and WNET Contracts, ARB No. 98-131, 2000 WL 1100166
    (Aug. 2000) pdf  html

Miami Elevator Co., ARB Nos. 98-086 & 97-145, 2000 WL 562698 (Apr. 2000) pdf  html

Excell Erection, Inc., ARB No. 99-115 (Sept. 2000) pdf  html

Plumbers Local Union No. 27, ARB No. 97-106, 1998 WL 440909 (July 1998 ) pdf  html

D.B. Clark III, ARB No. 98-106, 1998 WL 787318 (Sept. 1998) pdf  html

Dep’t of the Army, ARB Nos. 98-120/121/122, 1999 WL 1268073 (Dec. 1999) pdf  html

Dep’t of the Air Force SAF/AQCR Eastern Regional Office, ARB No. 98-125,
    2000 WL 739930 (May 2000) pdf   html 

Hobby v. Georgia Power Co., ARB Nos. 98-166/169, 2001 WL 168898, (Feb. 2001),
    aff’d Georgia Power Co. v. U.S. Dep’t of Labor, No. 01-10916 (11th Cir. 2002) pdf  html

SPEECHES AND PUBLICATIONS

Chapter Author, "Wage and Hour Law:  A State by State Survey," BNA Books (2005); annual updates 2005, 2006

Moderator, "Supreme Court and Other Developments Affecting Litigation of Retaliation and Whistleblower Claims,"
     ABA teleconference, March, 2007

Organizer/Moderator, "Anatomy of a Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Complaint," 
     ABA national convention, August, 2006

Organizer/Moderator, "Litigating Whistleblower Complaints at the U.S. Department of Labor,"
    D.C. Bar presentation, December, 2004

Panelist, “Sarbanes-Oxley’s Whistleblower Provisions: A New Challenge for Employment Lawyers,”
    Bar Association of the District of Columbia presentation, November, 2004 pdf

Author, "Davis-Bacon Revisited," Professional Roofing magazine, October, 2004

Co-author (with Daniel Abrahams, Esq. and Shlomo Katz, Esq.), “Complying with the Davis-
     Bacon Act,” Thomson-West Briefing Paper 2d Series, October, 2003 (reprinted with
     permission) pdf 

Co-author (with Allen Kinzer, Esq.), "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act," ABA Federal Labor Standards
    Legislation Committee Brief, 2003

Lecturer (with Stanley Keller, Esq.), “Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Protection Rules: New
    Challenges for Corporate Counsel and Labor Department Enforcement,”
    Thompson Publishing Group audioconference, 2003

Author, “Whistleblower Protection and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: A Road Under
     Construction,” presentation paper for ABA convention, August, 2003 (rev.12/2003)

Presenter, “What to Do When the Whistle Blows or How to Blow It: Whistleblower Protection
    Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,” ABA national convention, August, 2003

Organizer/Moderator, "Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Protection," D.C.Bar presentation,
     December, 2003

Lecturer, “Davis-Bacon Act Advanced Course,” A-76 Institute, 2002

Co-author (with Daniel Abrahams, Esq., and Shlomo Katz, Esq.), “The Davis-Bacon Act: An
    Overview,” West Construction Briefing Papers series, 2002

Presenter, “When Government Contracts Meet Labor and Employment Law,” ABA convention, 2002

Presenter, “An Evening with the Service Contract Act,” D.C. Bar presentation, 2001

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