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15 B.C. Indus. & Com. L. Rev. 227 (1973-1974)
Back Pay Revisited

handle is hein.journals/bclr15 and id is 233 raw text is: BACK PAY REVISITEDt Robert S. Fuchs* Henry M. Kelleher** Rosemary Pye*** TABLE OF CONTENTS PREAMBLE ............................................................. 228 I. INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 228 II. THE HISTORY OF BACK PAY ............................................ 230 III. THE COMPUTATION OF BACK PAY ....................................... 234 A. Generally .......................................................... 234 B. The Elements of Gross Back Pay .................................... 234 C. Deductions from Gross Back Pay .................................... 242 1. Illness During Back Pay Period .................................. 242 2. Interim Earnings ............................................... 243 a. Elements of Interim Earnings ................................. 243 b. Expenses Deductible from Interim Earnings .................... 246 3. Willful Loss of Earnings ......................................... 248 a. Adequacy of the Search for Work ............................. 249 b. Quitting an Interim Job ...................................... 255 c. Self-Employment ............................................. 256 D. Mathematical Computation .......................................... 258 1. Quarterly Computations .......................................... 258 2. Interest on Back Pay Awards .................................... 260 3. The End of the Back Pay Period ................................. 260 IV. PROCEDURAL ASPECTS OF BACK PAY ..................................... 262 A. Practice and Procedure ............................................. 262 B. Burden of Proof in Back Pay Proceedings ............................ 264 V. SPECIAL SITUATIONS .................................................... 268 A. Back Pay Awards in Strike Situations ............................... 268 B. Back Pay in Subcontracting Cases ................................... 276 C. Back Pay in Cases Involving Plant Closures and Relocations ........... 281 VI. LIABILITY FOR BACK PAY ............................................... 288 A. Generally .......................................................... 288 B. Liability of Purchasers of Respondent's Business ....................... 288 C. Claims of Creditors ................................................. 293 D. Union Responsibility ............................................... 296 E. Personal Liability of Employer Officers, Union Officers andlor Business Agents ............................................................ 301 VII. THE BACK PAY REMEDY AND REFUSAL-TO-BARGAIN SITUATIONS ........... 302 CONCLUSION ........................................................... 306 t This Article does not reflect the official position of the National Labor Relations Board or the General Counsel of the Board. * A.B., Rollins College, 1935; LL.B., Boston College, 1938; Regional Director, National Labor Relations Board, Boston, Massachusetts; Instructor, Boston College Law School, 1957-1972. ** A.B., Brown University, 1955; M.A., University of Virginia, 1970; J.D., Boston College, 1960; Partner, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Massachusetts. *** A.B., Wheaton College; M.A.T., Harvard University; Third-Year Student, Cornell University Law School.

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