By R. Joseph Stennis
Yesterday afternoon the Director of the NLRB’s regional office located in Chicago, Illinois ruled in a landmark decision that Northwestern University football players presently on scholarship at the school are an “employee” as that term is defined under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) and federal ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On March 25, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Quality Stores, Inc., 572 U.S. ___ (2014), No. 12-1408, that severance payments made to employees involuntarily terminated in connection with Quality Stores’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy were taxable wages for purposes of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act ...
By R. Joseph Stennis
In Lawson, et. al. v. FMR LLC, No. 12-3 (decided March 4, 2014), a divided U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that the whistleblower protections contained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) extend to employees who work for private contractors that do business with public companies. At issue in the case was a bit of text in ...
By Daniel C. Soldato
Data breaches, particularly of consumer information and other private information, are becoming an increasing public concern and a headline in the daily news. We regularly hear about incidents in which electronically stored customer information is lost by or stolen from businesses, including health care companies ...
By Mitzi D. Wyrick
President Obama has directed the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) to revise regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act to make more workers eligible for overtime pay. Specifically, the DOL will be reviewing the executive, professional, and administrative exemptions, sometimes referred to as the ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On March 5, 2014, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce conducted a hearing entitled, “Culture of Union Favoritism: The Return of the NLRB’s Ambush Election Rule.” During the hearing, chaired by Representative John Kline (R-MN), some members of the committee claimed that the recently proposed changes to ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On February 25, 2014, the NLRB’s General Counsel, Richard F. Griffin, Jr., issued a memorandum to Regional Directors and others in the field setting forth mandatory submissions to the Advice Section of the General Counsel’s Office in Washington, D.C.
Many of the matters cited are areas of the law that the new GC (and probably ...