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Posts Tagged ‘employment lawyer’
November 29th, 2018
By: James Glowacki Just last month, New York enacted a comprehensive statewide law aimed at reducing incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace. The new law expands protections available to employees and requires all New York employers to maintain a sexual harassment policy conforming to the state’s minimum requirements. Under New York Labor Law Section…
November 8th, 2018
By: Alaine S. Williams One of the first pieces of legislation signed into law by Governor Murphy of New Jersey in 2018 is a law requiring employers to provide both full-time and part-time employees 40 hours of paid sick leave each benefit year. The New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act (Act), which went into effect…
August 23rd, 2018
By Jessica Brown This is the first in a multipart series about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA is a federal law under the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. What are basics of the ADA at work? Specifically, under the ADA employers must…
July 5th, 2018
By Ryan A. Hancock A few weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court issued a sweeping decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, in three consolidated cases including one arising under the National Labor Relations Act, that will make it difficult, if not impossible, for employees to gain access to a court of law to…
May 17th, 2018
By James Glowacki It is well known that women often earn less than men for doing the same work. Per a Pew Research Center analysis, women in the United States earned about 82% of what men earned in 2017. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently addressed this “pay gap” in…
May 2nd, 2018
By James S. Beall On April 26, 2018, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated an employer’s attempt to freeze participation in a multiemployer pension plan to existing employees, and place new employees in a 401(k) plan. This is a common employer demand in bargaining, but it was held unlawful because of the Pension…
March 29th, 2018
By Alidz Oshagan In 1978, Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (“PDA”) as an amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The PDA prohibits employers from discriminating against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth. An employer is…
February 14th, 2018
By: John R. Bielski On Wednesday, February 7, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (“Court”) issued its historic ruling in the Pennsylvania gerrymandering case, declaring that the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s hyper-partisan and politically-gerrymandered 2011 congressional redistricting plan (“2011 Plan”) violated Article I, Section 5 of the Pennsylvania Constitution—known as the Free and Equal Elections Clause. Justice…
January 22nd, 2018
By: John R. Bielski Today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a 5-2 decision struck down the 2011 congressional redistricting map as unconstitutional under the Pennsylvania Constitution and barring its use in the regular primary and general elections this year. As reported in an earlier post, Willig, Williams & Davidson wrote an amicus brief on behalf…
January 11th, 2018
By Bruce M. Ludwig As soon as the conservative Republicans constituted a majority of the members of the National Labor Relations Board, because of President Trump’s appointments, this new majority rushed to reverse important prior decisions in a blatant effort to roll back worker and Union rights. In a 3-2 decision, the Republican majority overruled…
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