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Posts Tagged ‘lawyers in philadelphia’
January 3rd, 2019
By: Louise F. Pongracz On December 14, 2018, Federal District Judge Reed O’Connor (in the Northern District Court of Texas) issued an order on a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) brought by 20 Republican state attorneys general and two individuals. These Plaintiffs claimed that because Congress, in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts (“TCJA”),…
December 13th, 2018
By: James Beall & James Glowacki The Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 (MPPAA) imposes an exit charge on employers that stop participating in multiemployer-union defined benefit plans. The exit charge approximates the withdrawing employer’s share of the plan’s total unfunded vested benefits owed to participants, but not yet covered by existing plan assets….
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…
October 11th, 2018
By: James R. Glowacki On July 30, 2018, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking to ease Obama-era reporting requirements of workplace injuries and illnesses. Under the new proposal, many employers will no longer be required to annually submit certain reports logging and detailing injuries and illnesses suffered…
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…
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 15th, 2018
By John R. Bielski On January 5, 2018, eight unions– the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, AFSCME Council 13, AFGE, AFT Pennsylvania, APSCUF, CWA District 2-13, SEIU Pennsylvania State Council, UFCW Local 1776 and UNITEHERE–filed an amici brief in support of a legal challenge to the Pennsylvania congressional redistricting map created by the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 2011….
December 14th, 2017
By: Jonathan Krinick The Pennsylvania Legislature, to a large degree in response to some of the institutional failures apparent at Penn State University in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, took several steps to broaden the definition of child abuse. These changes to the Child Protective Services Law and a lack of direction by…
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