Labor & Employment Law

Benefits issues in the campaign? Just the fact, ma'am
Get answers (not spin) to your burning questions on health care, social security, and private pension benefits issues from the Employee Benefits Research Institute.

Blawg of the Day -- Employee Benefits Law
Today we'll head to Colorado for our law-related blog of the day: Employee Benefits Law is dedicated to attorneys and business people throughout the Rocky Mountain region...

Veteran employee benefits and exec compensation lawyer joins Proskauer as partner
Attorney James Williams joined Proskauer Rose's Los Angeles office as a partner. Williams is an employee benefits and executive compensation lawyer who advises public and private global companies, universities, schools, tax-exempt organizations, multi-employer plans and government entities...

Welcome
Welcome to our new blog!  The Benefits and Executive Compensation Group at Baker & Daniels is pleased to start this new forum for topical employee benefits issues...

Can you be terminated just prior to vesting in your benefits?
The Court held that the covenant of good faith and fair dealing is violated when an employer terminates an at-will employee without good cause and deprives the employee of a clearly identifiable future compensation reflective of the employee?s past services...

6th Issues Major Decision Holding CBA Promise of Retiree Lifetime Benefits Is Enforcable And Binding Many Years After Employees Retire
Cole v. ArvinMeritor, Inc., ___F.3d___(6th Cir. Dec. 16, 2008), is a major employee benefits/labor law case concerning lifetime health insurance benefits for retirees...

Military Veterans Benefits
How to obtain full range of benefits for veterans and dependnets

Military Veterans Benefits, Part 3
Other Benefits

Military Veterans Benefits, Part 4
Where to get help

Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

Military Veterans Benefits, Part 2
Training, Healthcare, and Death Benefits

Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
Employers must check references, criminal records, other background material.

I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...

Can my employer threaten me with termination if I don't seek a transfer to another department?
In many jurisdictions, employees are "at will". This means that their employmen...

Bar issues include constant trash in front of my business, left over open containers of alcohol and broken beer bottles in parking lot. Overnight parking in front of my business from bar customers who drank too much and
Find out about city ordinances. Talk to them and see how they can help; be court...

My exwife got a judgement aganst me. years latter i remarried and bought a home i told my new wife that I was not sure about owning real property so soon . our realtor told us I could file a quick claim deed. i sign it t
A quick claim deed has "No warranties" to anything. Your real estate a...

How to prove child support payments were sent by US Mail?
Your best bet is to send the checks via certified mail return receipt requested....

Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits
Social Security Loses Class Action, Will Pay $500 Million in Benefits

Spa Factor
Aromatherapy Fountain & Bath Benefits Kits Recalled

Georgette Klinger Spa
alleging unpaid wages and benefits and violation of the WARN Act.

The Dannon Company, Inc.
allegedly falsely claimed Activia and DanActive probiotic yogurt products had scientifically proven health benefits.

Immigrant SSI
US Federal Government agrees to extend benefits in class action settlement.

Westinghouse
alleging that former Westinghouse employees are being deprived of a choice in health care prescription plan benefits that were formerly available to them through union bargaining.