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Title: Unique nature of the coal mining industry-are the labor law rules determining when two employers should be treated as one different for the coal industry?

Journal Article · · West Virginia Law Review
OSTI ID:121486
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  1. Smith, Heenan, & Althen, Charleston, WV (United States)

Modern United States labor law dates from the 1935 enactment of the Wagner Act. Its definition of {open_quotes}employer{close_quotes} has remained the same over the the nearly sixty years of its application. The Courts and the Board have developed detailed criteria deciding when two or more employers should be considered one under that definition. Since the 1984 decision in B.F.I., those criteria have been uniformly accepted and applied. There is nothing unique about the coal industry warranting a change or a different application of the criteria.

OSTI ID:
121486
Journal Information:
West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 97, Issue 4; Other Information: PBD: Sum 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English