By: Irwin Aronson, Lauren Hoye, Jessica Brown, and William Campbell In response to the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the country, the U.S. Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). This legislation, in addition to providing limited paid sick and family leave to some ...
U.S. Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Revised 3.24.20)
By: Willig, Williams & Davidson INTRODUCTION On March 18, 2020, the U. S. Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). The President signed the measure into law the same day. The law goes into effect on April 2, 2020. This law includes numerous emergency measures to ...
COVID-19, First Responders and Heart & Lung/Workers’ Compensation Benefits
By Richard Poulson and Michael Dryden Willig, Williams & Davison is privileged to represent workers who place themselves at risk each day to protect the rights of others. In times like the current COVID-19 crisis, we are reminded of the risks and sacrifices accepted by public safety workers ...
As COVID-19 Response Leads to Business Closures, Are Workers Getting the Notice They Deserve?
By Joseph Richardson The COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant and fast-moving changes to the American economy, and many businesses are either already laying off employees or considering doing so in the near future. Although you may not be able to stop your employer from laying you off, ...
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Suspends Evictions Until April 3, 2020
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 ...