By: Kristine A. Phillips Many people have suffered losses of jobs and income in light of the Coronavirus, due to businesses shutting down, quarantine, illness, etc. This can have a major impact on the ability to timely pay bills, including rent. In order to address this, the Supreme Court of ...
Best Practices When Preparing for a Child Custody Case in Pennsylvania
Family law proceedings are generally emotionally charged. When it comes to child custody proceedings specifically, the parties often have such negative feelings toward one another that they cannot speak without an argument ensuing making co-parenting impossible and causing people to seek ...
Salaried Non-Exempt Workers in Pennsylvania to be Paid Time-and-a-Half for Overtime
By: Jessica Brown On November 20, 2019, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a decision requiring that employers provide salaried, non-exempt employees with overtime compensation that is 1.5 times their regular rate of pay for hours worked in excess of 40 during a work week. This decision ...
Seventh Circuit Denies Mark Janus’ Attempt to Recover Fair Share Fees Paid To Union That Represented Him
By: Jessica C. Caggiano To Recap: You will likely recall that on June 27, 2018, Mark Janus persuaded the United States Supreme Court to overturn nearly 40-years of precedent and find that public-sector unions could no longer collect fair-share fees from nonmember, public-sector employees. ...
Winning Streak for Unions Continues as Pennsylvania Federal Courts Reject Attempts to Expand the Reach of Janus
By Jessica Caggiano Pennsylvania’s federal courts have been bustling with litigation filed against public-sector unions in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 27, 2018 decision in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018). Prior to Janus, Pennsylvania, like many other states, ...
No Organizing Beyond This Point: NLRB Rules Property Rights Outweigh Worker’s Rights in Recent Decisions
By Joseph D. Richardson On Friday, September 6, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued yet another in a series of decisions rolling back the rights of contract workers and non-employee organizers on employer-owned property. In Kroger Mid-Atlantic, which issued on ...
Commonwealth Court Decision Regarding “Necessitous and Compelling” Requirements Under Pennsylvania Law
Last month, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, in a case called Devon Preparatory School v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, ruled that a former employee of Devon Preparatory School (School) was entitled to unemployment compensation benefits after she voluntarily quit her job, ...
NLRB Targets Key Election Policies in Proposed Rulemaking
By Joseph D. Richardson The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced on August 9, 2019 a plan to significantly change three aspects of the Board’s election rules. This process will officially begin on Monday, August 12, 2019, when the agency’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is to be ...
The Protections of the Philadelphia Fair Workweek Employment Ordinance
Philadelphia has taken a big step forward in improving the lives of many retail, food, and hospitality workers in the city. Beginning on January 1, 2020, covered employers will be required to provide employees with the following: Advance notice of their work schedules;“Predictability pay” where ...
Pennsylvania House Bill 849 Would Prohibit Employers From Using NDAs in Sexual Harassment Cases
A nondisclosure agreement (“NDA”) is a contract between the employee and the employer that requires the employee to keep trade secrets and other, employer information confidential. Typically, NDAs are a condition of employment. In other words, sign the NDA, or risk not being hired, or worse, being ...