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A new Supreme Court decision has answered the prayers of church-associated entities seeking relief from the regulatory requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Employee benefit plans, including defined benefit pension plans, are ...
The building blocks of the Obama regulatory reform continue to fall as the Department of Labor (DOL) has just announced their intention to revoke the much maligned “persuader rule” that hampers employers seeking legal advice during union election ...
Based on a recent decision from the United States Supreme Court, resistance to a subpoena from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will likely be futile. In the typical case, a charge from the EEOC ...
The US Department of Labor (DOL) announced today the withdrawal of Obama-era guidance that paved the way for temporary workers or independent contractors to be considered “joint employees” of the contracting employer. As reported in our post You Could Be ...
Governor Mark Dayton has wielded his veto pen so Minneapolis and St. Paul employers must get ready for new sick leave legislation that takes effect on July 1. As we previously reported, the Minnesota Legislature proposed ...
While the 2008 amendments to the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) made it much easier for employees to claim disabled status, at least one court has declared that employers can still challenge that determination successfully under ...
The Minnesota Supreme Court recently rebuked a trial court for laboring under the false impression that an employer must be angry about an applicant’s pregnancy in order to unlawfully discriminate against it. Instead, pregnancy-based discrimination ...
It has been carved in stone for 70 years that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) forbids comp time in lieu of overtime for nonexempt employees. However, the House of Representatives has just passed a ...
