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U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Unaccepted Settlement Offers and Offers of Judgment Can’t End Consumer Class Action Lawsuits
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court limited a tool that defendants had used to settle costly class action litigation through se...
Learn MoreSupreme Court: Health Plan Recovery Of Expenses Can Be Thwarted By Spendthrift Participant
In an 8-1 decision issued yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a health plan’s right of recovery against a plan par...
Learn MoreEmployment Law 2016 Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preparing for Medical Marijuana in PennsylvaniaMajor Changes to FLSA Overtime Rules on Hold For NowNew Fede...
Learn MoreReturn of The Persuader Rule
Employers may recall the Department of Labor’s prior attempts to implement the “persuader rule” which seeks to narrow t...
Learn MoreThird Circuit Adopts “Predominant Benefit Test” to Determine Compensability of Meal Breaks
The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Pennsylvania, recently evaluated the appropriate test to...
Learn MoreThird Circuit Holds That Jury Must Decide If Temporary Workers Are Employees Under Anti-Discrimination Laws
Last week, the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment to retailer ...
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Final Rule Amending Overtime Requirements Not Expected Until Late 2016
On June 30, 2015, the Department of Labor (DOL) published its proposed rule amending the minimum salary requirement for overt...
Learn MoreNLRB Revisits Joint Employer Standard
On August 27th, in the case of Browning-Ferris Industries, the National Labor Relations Board “refined” its tests fo...
Learn MorePittsburgh City Council Passes “Paid Sick Days Act”
On Monday August 3, 2015, Pittsburgh City Council approved an ordinance titled “Paid Sick Days Act” requiring employers t...
Learn MoreEEOC Confirms that Sexual Orientation Discrimination is “Sex Discrimination”
On July 15, 2015, the EEOC issued an official decision that sexual orientation discrimination is sex discrimination under Tit...
Learn MoreDOL Proposes to Raise Minimum Salary for White Collar Exemptions
The Department of Labor announced today a proposed rule that would raise the minimum salary for the white collar exemptions u...
Learn MoreSystem Glitch Leads To Freeze On US Travel Visas
Since June 9th a computer glitch has stalled visa processing at U.S. embassies all over the world. The hardware malfunction h...
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