Why was Rockliffe Hall refused a payout?
The owners of a five-star hotel have been refused a £250,000 insurance payout after a judge ruled they were covered for bubonic plague but not Covid. Rockliffe Hall in County Durham has been fighting insurers who refused to pay out after the pandemic ‘devastated’ business.
Who is the owner of Rockliffe Hall Hotel?
Rockliffe Hall in County Durham has been fighting insurers who refused to pay out after the pandemic ‘devastated’ business. The hotel near Darlington, which is owned by Middlesbrough FC chairman Steve Gibson through a company, claimed it was due a £250,000 payout as it was insured for losses caused by various exotic illnesses, including ‘plague’.
Is the renaming of Anthropology’s Kroeber Hall ad hoc?
But ad hoc censoring without a process including factual knowledge, evidence, and reserach has no place in a public university. This renaming is happening during a time when the long over due erasures and removals of the names and statues, and monuments of slavers, Indian killers, colonialists, and racists.
Where was Mrs Krarup buried at Quenby Hall?
They were buried at the churchyard in Hungarton, Leicestershire, less than a mile from the Jacobean Quenby Hall, after her mother died in 1995. Mrs Krarup had been cremated in Madrid before her ashes were returned to England.
Can a union use an exclusive hiring hall?
In a non-exclusive arrangement, the union’s hiring hall is only one of many possible sources of employees. The employer is not obligated to use the hiring hall, and in fact routinely hires employees off the street. Labor law treats exclusive and non-exclusive hiring halls quite differently.
Is there a duty to abide by hiring hall rules?
The Board has interpreted the duty as requiring unions to abide by hiring hall rules that the union may have published, and to avoid arbitrary or discriminatory referral decisions, such as by refusing to refer union dissidents or minority or female employees to available jobs.
What did the Supreme Court say about hiring halls?
In 1961, the Supreme Court set the Board straight. The Court said that while a hiring hall certainly encourages union membership, so do good union contracts and effective grievance representation. The law only prohibits “discrimination” in the union’s operation of the exclusive hiring hall, not the hall itself.
Can a company bypass an exclusive hiring hall?
If the employer bypasses the hall and hires off the street, the union has a grievance for the lost work. Exclusive hiring halls can also exist without a written agreement as a matter of historical practice of the parties.