Kenneth R. Ballard

Published Decisions: Court of Appeal of California: GAB Business Services v. Lindsey & Newsom Claim Services (2000) 83 Cal. App. 4th 409 (court reversed jury verdict against our client, a company that provides independent insurance adjusting services, on claims against a former corporate officer and a competitor company for breach of fiduciary duty and unfair competition); Gosvener v. Coastal Corporation (1996) 51 Cal. App. 4th 805 (established standards for an employer's reasonable accommodation of alcoholism under Labor Code Section 1025 and the Fair Employment and Housing Act); National Labor Relations Board: Anaheim Town & Country Inn, 282 NLRB 224 (1986) (employer lawfully refused to honor collective bargaining agreement signed by manager and lawfully discharged manager for allowing union to organize employees); Service Employees Local 44 (Sir Francis Drake), 274 NLRB 501 (1985) (union unlawfully attempted to force employer to assign certain work to its members rather than to the employer's non-union employees); Labor Arbitrators: Gaylord National Harbor, 128 BNA LA 821 (Abrams, 2010) (awarding employer work assignments language proposals in an interest arbitration); Fedco, Inc., 1992 BNA LA Supp. 115260 (Christopher, 1992) (employer did not violate collective bargaining agreement by suspending and discharging employee for failing to ring up a transaction); Sebastiani Vineyards, 85 BNA LA 371 (Rothstein, 1985) (employer had the right to award foreman position to more qualified employee rather than most senior employee); Lash Distributors, 74 BNA LA 274 (Darrow, 1980) (employer had just cause to suspend employee for low production)