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EBRI Issues Brief on ERISA Preemption
The Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) has put out an issue brief entitled: ERISA Pre-emption: Implications for Health Reform and Coverage by Paul Fronstin and Bill Pierron, EBRI Fellow...

EBRI Re-Launches Website
Jerry Kalish over at Retirement Plan Blog points out that the independent, non-partisan research group Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) has re-launched and updated its website...

EBRI: Retirement Expenses Going Up; Funds Going Down
A pair of EBRI studies delivers sobering news on the retirement front: First, on the retirement savings side, employers are having to rob Peter to pay Paul...

Blawg of the Day -- Employee Benefits Legal Blog
We're making our way through some of the great blogs published by Fox Rothschild -- today it's the Employee Benefits Legal Blog, which is written by Keith McCurdy, an attorney in the firm's New York office...

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...

Lurie's Recent Employee Benefits Articles
Alvin Lurie has been busy publishing articles on the ERISA and employee benefits front...

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...

How to prevent an arrest from appearing in the local newspaper?
Dont know the law in Minnesota but in most jurisdictions an arrest is a matter o...

Can one be fired from their job without being notified?
Can a employer fire you without your knowledge? Is firing without notificaiton a...

I work in a goverment office and since 1999 an employee has been harassing me calling and hanging up on me. Trying to catch my hand in a door. Driving in front of me and slaming on her brakes. The goverment agnecy has no
Start by keeping a record of all her unreasonable behaviour towards her, down to...

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.