184 ABA Journal Employee Benefits articles.
With dozens of state legislatures holding their first sessions of the post-Roe v. Wade era, some firms are proactively counseling clients on the highly complex, politically charged and quickly shifting landscape surrounding employee benefits and abortion laws. In doing so, attorneys have to consider real and hypothetical civil and criminal liabilities.
Apr 1, 2023 1:40 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an oil-rig employee who typically works 84 hours per week is entitled to overtime pay, despite making more than $200,000 annually.
Feb 22, 2023 12:04 PM CST
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Restaurants may often invest in substantial insurance coverage for their businesses, including purchasing “business interruption” coverage in case something beyond their control forces a shutdown of their operations. In mid-March, such an event happened: the coronavirus pandemic.
May 26, 2020 9:09 AM CDT
May 15, 2020 1:37 PM CDT
In the decade since the Great Recession, wages for private lawyers have risen, with the average salary now at $144,230. However, digging deeper into a collection of data released in the last year-and-a-half shows the wealth is not being shared equally across gender, region, client type and practice areas.
Sep 1, 2019 3:40 AM CDT
A new lawsuit accuses Jones Day of reinforcing “archaic gender roles” in an unequal parental leave policy and using a secret compensation system that is “tailor-made to enable sex discrimination.”
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A fraud investigator at JPMorgan Chase who led a class action lawsuit over denied parental leave for fathers has won an agreement to settle the case for $5 million.
Derek…
May 31, 2019 10:56 AM CDT
Pension plans established by church-affiliated groups are not subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote the unanimous
Veterans looking to appeal denials of benefits will have a new tool in their arsenal.
A Friday post from Robert Ambrogi of LawSites that the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono…
Mar 10, 2017 3:36 PM CST
Every dollar spent on civil legal aid for low-income Florida residents creates $7 in economic impact, according to a study released Thursday.
The study, commissioned by the Florida Bar Foundation,…
Feb 2, 2017 12:23 PM CST
At least 25 percent of a convicted former Nevada judge’s more than $10,000-a-month pension can be applied to his $2.9 million restitution, a federal judge in Las Vegas ruled from…
Apr 4, 2016 3:10 PM CDT
A former Yahoo Inc. editor has filed a federal lawsuit against the company, alleging that a quarterly performance review system that ranks all company workers on a scale of 1…
Feb 2, 2016 6:15 AM CST
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