Section 39 Problems With Large Numbers of Claimants

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

A variety of problems, including administrative difficulties, arise in labor dispute cases when large numbers of employees are involved. As numbers increase, due process and a speedy, efficient method of conducting a hearing meet head on. Conducting a joint hearing for all appeals creates impediments to ensuring that all claimants have an opportunity to be heard. If individual hearings are held, the employer has the burden of presenting its case at each and every hearing. In addition, a single labor dispute...