Local No. P-1236, Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America, Afl-Cio v. Jones Dairy Farm

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• holding that a company policy which prevented workers who “processed meat products” from “contacting inspectors” jeopardized “the heath and welfare of consumers[.]”
• concluding that “insuring sanitary conditions in meat packing plants is an important public policy” and vacating arbitration award on public policy grounds finding that a work rule which precluded employees from reporting unsanitary conditions to inspectors violated public policy
• work rule which forbade employees from reporting unsanitary conditions directly to government officials violated public policy
• work rule which forbade employees from reporting unsanitary conditions directly to government officials violated public policy
• company rule forbidding employees from reporting health violations violated public policy because it hindered accomplishment of the goals of the Meat Inspection Act
• court declined to enforce on public policy grounds an arbitrator's award approving of a company's work rule that prohibited employees from reporting unsanitary working conditions directly to inspectors for the United States Department of Agriculture

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