The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently laid out a list of harsher remedies for repeat violators of labor laws. While none of the remedies are new, the NLRB’s decision indicates that the board will employ stronger methods in holding employers accountable for violating workers’ rights. In ...
Deborah R. Willig Featured in Philadelphia Lawyer for Paving the Way for Women in the Legal Profession
Managing partner Deborah R. Willig’s nearly 50-year career fighting for marginalized communities and paving the way for women lawyers was recently highlighted in the Women in Law issue of Philadelphia Lawyer, the Philadelphia Bar Association’s quarterly magazine. The first woman Chancellor of the ...
Law360 Shares Insight from Joseph Richardson on National Labor Relations Board’s 10(j) Injunction
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently disclosed that it takes an average of nearly 10 months to file an emergency injunction that would end an ongoing labor violation. In an article in Law360, Willig, Williams & Davidson attorney Joseph Richardson discusses how this glacial pace ...
Deborah Willig Named Recipient of 2023 ABA Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award
PHILADELPHIA (April 2023) – Willig, Williams & Davidson is pleased to announce that the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession has named Deborah R. Willig a 2023 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award honoree. Willig is the sixth recipient from Philadelphia ...
Implications to Employee Benefits Plans For the End of the COVID-19 National Emergency and Public Health Emergency
by Susan Bahme BlumenfeldPresident Trump declared the COVID-19 National Emergency (“NE”) on March 13, 2020, retroactively effective March 1, 2020. Similarly, the U.S. Department Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”), initially beginning on January 27, ...
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Sides with Former Philadelphia Eagles Player in Workers’ Comp Case
Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court recently sided with Willig, Williams & Davidson client Emmanuel Acho in a significant workers’ compensation case. Acho, a former player with the Philadelphia Eagles, filed a workers’ comp claim petition in 2018 after he injured his thumb twice during practice ...
‘It’s Always the Right Time to Do the Right Thing’
Throughout nearly 50 years as a practicing lawyer, Deborah R. Willig has always sided with the underdog. Willig, our firm’s managing partner, recently sat down with the National Law Journal to discuss a legal career born of a deep passion for equality, a passion that burns just as fiercely ...
Philadelphia Inquirer Covers Dispute with Home Depot Over Fair Workweek Law Requirements
The Philadelphia Inquirer recently covered the efforts of Home Depot employees to unionize as well as a complaint filed by William Bermudez in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court alleging the store’s management violated requirements of Philadelphia’s Fair Workweek Law. Bermudez is represented by Willig, ...
Attorney Ryan Hancock Discusses Dispute Over ‘Fair and Predictable’ Schedules in Philadelphia Inquirer
Willig, Williams & Davidson attorney Ryan Hancock recently discussed his client’s lawsuit in a Philadelphia Inquirer article entitled “Philly medical marijuana dispensary Curaleaf sued for allegedly breaking the city’s Fair Workweek law.” The article examines a lawsuit brought by Frankie ...
Louise ‘Wendy’ F. Pongracz Discusses Impact of Cannabis Legislation on Healthcare Benefits
In a recent article in Benefits Magazine, Willig, Williams & Davidson partner Louise “Wendy” F. Pongracz discussed the challenges faced by employers and health plan sponsors in navigating state laws that legalize medical and recreational marijuana. Co-authored by Pongracz and employee ...