The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Glenn provides an invaluable roadmap for employers, insurers, administrators and plan fiduciaries sponsoring or administering employee benefit plans regulated by... Read more »
The Internal Revenue Service now keeps a close eye on charities and social welfare organizations to ensure that their tax-exempt status is not abused. One of the primary factors the IRS examines... Read more »
Ruling that an employee cannot circumvent the federal Fair Labor Standards
Act by pleading causes of action under state common law, the
U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond rejected an
attempt to invoke North Carolina... Read more »
Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from
discriminating against employees based on race, color, religion, sex or
national origin. Title VII also prohibits discrimination against employees
who have opposed... Read more »
Regardless of whether your state or municipality has enacted a hands-free device law to regulate the use of cell phones while driving a vehicle, your liability as an employer for the vehicular... Read more »
The decision to discharge an employee should be made only after careful reflection. Yes, I understand there are circumstances where the misconduct is so significant that immediate termination is warranted. Those instances... Read more »
As reported in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on May 28, 2008, a group of Muslim workers allege they were fired by a Mission Foods tortilla factory for refusing to wear uniforms that... Read more »
While promising to continue its strategy to increase raids and prosecutions
of companies it claims have knowingly hired large numbers of unauthorized
workers, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has signaled a plan to
expand random... Read more »
On May 1, 2008, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 414-1, passed
the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which prohibits
discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health
insurance and employment.... Read more »
Tamara Klopfenstein was a part-time receptionist for National Sales & Supplies for six weeks. During her employment, two vice presidents regularly asked her to bring them coffee. Her job description did not... Read more »