United States Fourth Circuit

Under Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, an employer who refused to transfer an employee when it was unclear whether a health problem was work related, did not violate its collective bargaining agreement, even if the health problem later turned out to be work related.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2001
• Decided 01/22/2002
• Published 01/22/2002

Judges

• Before MOTZ, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Fred Thurman Hamlet, Sr., Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Pamela W. Connelly, Leboeuf, Lamb, Greene & Macrae, L.L.P., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellee Alcoa;  Arlus Jeremiah Stephens, Assistant General Counsel, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellee Union.   ON BRIEF:  William V. Conley, Leboeuf, Lamb, Greene & Macrae, L.L.P., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellee Alcoa.