Employer Liability Issues, Wages, Employee Benefits

Claimant’s Appeal Was Insufficient, Workers’ Compensation Judge’s Wage Reduction Stands

Marshall Dennehey on 4/11/2025

Bob Evans Restaurants LLC v. Robert Schriver (WCAB); No. 158 C.D. 2024; filed March 11, 2025; Senior Judge Leavitt - The Commonwealth Court reversed a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, reinstating a judge’s...more

Is Your Group Health Plan “Affordable,” According to the IRS? ‎

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 10/16/2024

The 2025 open enrollment season for employee benefits is swiftly approaching. With newly released IRS guidance, employers should review the cost of their group health plan(s) to ensure affordability. Companies that rely on...more

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation and the Special Timing Rule HR Professionals Should Be Aware of for FICA Tax Purposes

Verrill on 12/15/2021

Twenty years ago this month the Enron Corporation imploded in spectacular fashion and declared bankruptcy. In the weeks leading up to its bankruptcy filing, over 100 highly compensated employees raced to receive early...more

Employers in North Carolina Must Now Communicate Wages in Writing

Poyner Spruill LLP on 9/29/2021

A recent amendment to North Carolina’s Wage and Hour Act (N.C.G.S. § 95-25.13) now requires North Carolina employers to provide written notice to new hires of...more

In Colorado, Employers May Giveth - But They May Not Taketh Away

BCLP on 7/6/2021

Last month, the Colorado Supreme Court finally resolved a longstanding issue in Colorado employment law: whether employers may have a policy or agreement that provides for forfeiture of accrued but unused vacation. The...more

Connecticut Will Require Employers to Disclose Wage Range to Applicants and Employees, and Broadens Equal Pay Law

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/16/2021

On June 7, 2021, Governor Ned Lamont signed Public Act 21-30, an “Act Concerning the Disclosure of Salary Range for a Vacant Position” (“Act”), which expands upon measures already in place in Connecticut to address pay...more

Increased Regulations for Employers, Among Philadelphia City Council’s Agenda

Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/23/2020

In advance of their first official meeting of 2020, members of Philadelphia City Council outlined their legislative priorities, and several say they intend to introduce legislation to increase protections for employees....more

NJ Department of Labor Adopts Regulations on Suspension and Revocation of Employer Licenses

Epstein Becker & Green on 10/21/2019

Continuing New Jersey’s efforts to eliminate and to hold employers accountable for employee misclassification, the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) recently adopted Regulations implementing a 2010...more

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules That Unused Paid Sick Leave Does Not Qualify as Wages Under the Commonwealth’s Wage Act

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/2/2018

In Mui v. Massachusetts Port Authority, issued on January 29, 2018, Massachusetts’s highest court decided an issue of first impression in the Commonwealth: whether accrued but unused paid sick time counts as “wages” for...more

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