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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a variety of claims brought by employees, as well as government enforcement actions. Recently-filed cases are taking a new tack; shareholders are bringing derivative [...]

On March 15, Pennsylvania Governor Wolf announced the lifting of some targeted restrictions on restaurants, businesses, and gathering limits as COVID-19 cases have declined and vaccination rates increase. Effective April [...]

On March 12, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) launched a National Emphasis Program (NEP) that signaled a new enforcement agenda, targeting establishments in industries that have an [...]

Section 1102 of the CARES Act created the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which is intended to provide funds for small businesses affected by COVID-19 to maintain their workforce. The loans [...]

Summary The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its final rule addressing when a worker will be an independent contractor, rather than an employee, under the Fair Labor Standards Act [...]

Section 1102 of the CARES Act created the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which is intended to provide funds for small businesses affected by COVID-19 to maintain their workforce. The loans [...]

On today's episode we discuss a key issue presented by the coming COVID-19 vaccines: whether employers can or should mandate vaccination, what limitations might exist on an employer's ability to [...]

Summary California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 22. The ballot measure exempts app-based rideshare and delivery companies from AB 5, which made it more difficult to classify drivers as contractors by [...]

SUMMARY After a lengthy regulatory process, Pennsylvania's revised overtime regulations finally took effect on October 3, 2020, when published in final form. As we shared in 2018 when the regulations [...]

BASEL, Switzerland, June 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In a study that is the first of its kind, researchers from the University of Western Australia analyzed a massive amount of data [...]

This article is the second part of an in-depth series about Pitt's faculty union campaign. Read from the beginning here. After matching signed authorization cards to faculty names from Pitt's [...]

BASEL, Switzerland, April 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A large study just published in the journal Anaesthesia raises important questions about the way anaemia is currently managed in surgical patients (Associations [...]

Byline: Juliana Feliciano Reyes Aug. 31--When unions and employers negotiate a contract, the strategy revolves around power -- and perception of power. Both sides are making the calculation: How much [...]

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced his administration's plan to update state overtime pay regulations, including a substantial increase in the salary an employee must earn to be exempt from overtime [...]

2019 APR 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week -- A large study just published in the journal Anaesthesia raises important [...]

Byline: Claudia Vargas July 24--In the middle of contract negotiations with AFSCME District Council 33, Richard Lazer, Philadelphia's point man in the talks, had to deal with another labor issue [...]

Byline: Jeff Gammage April 12--An angry, shouting Daniel Dougherty was escorted from a courtroom Monday moments after being convicted for a second time of setting the fire that killed his [...]

Byline: Jeff Gammage April 06--A juror who became emotionally upset, 'hyperventilating, popping pills,' was dismissed Wednesday from the panel that is deciding whether Daniel Dougherty set the fire that killed [...]

Byline: Jeff Gammage March 23--An eighth-floor Philadelphia courtroom turned into a time machine Tuesday, reaching back to the early hours of Aug. 24, 1985, when, prosecutors say, Daniel Dougherty killed [...]

Byline: Jeff Gammage March 22--Seventeen years in state prison haven't done much for Daniel Dougherty. He limped into the courtroom Monday morning, leaning heavily on a wooden cane, his long [...]

Byline: Jeff Gammage March 22--Seventeen years in state prison haven't done much for Daniel Dougherty. He limped into the courtroom Monday morning, leaning heavily on a wooden cane, his long [...]

PERTH: The International Foundation for Patient Blood Management has issued the following news release: Dr Simon Towler, Clinical Lead for South Metropolitan Health Service and a staff specialist in Intensive [...]

PERTH, Australia, Oct. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr Simon Towler, Clinical Lead for South Metropolitan Health Service and a staff specialist in Intensive Care at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, Australia, [...]

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) December 31, 2015 Working more than forty hours a week and not getting overtime? Are tips going to management instead of servers? And are large companies- such [...]

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) December 31, 2015 The American Law Journal celebrates 25 years on the air examining 'Transgender on the Job: How the EEOC and Gay Marriage is Impacting LGBT [...]

(PRWeb) - What if you knew that the 20% tip you were leaving for the waiter was actually going in the owners pocket? Tonight at 7:00 pm on the Philadelphia [...]

(PRWEB) December 14, 2015 What if you knew that the 20% tip you were leaving for the waiter was actually going in the owner's pocket? Tonight at 7:00 pm on [...]

Byline: Jeff Gammage Oct. 08--When Daniel Dougherty heard the news, he had one question for his lawyers: When do I get out? They couldn't give him an answer. But now, [...]

Byline: Bob Warner Feb. 28--Leaders of Philadelphia's biggest municipal union, AFSCME District Council 33, met briefly with Nutter administration Friday afternoon, but the talks broke for the weekend with no [...]

Byline: Bob Warner Feb. 27--PHILADELPHIA -- Even after a five-year impasse, the tentative contract agreement between the city and AFSCME District Council 47 looks like a classic labor compromise, with [...]

Byline: Bob Warner Feb. 27--Even after a five-year impasse, the tentative contract agreement between the city and AFSCME District Council 47 looks like a classic labor compromise, with both sides [...]

Byline: Bob Warner Feb. 22--PHILADELPHIA -- Negotiating with its largest labor union for the first time in more than a year, the Nutter administration spent four hours Friday in discussions [...]

2017 NOV 9 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Blood Weekly -- Dr Simon Towler, Clinical Lead for South Metropolitan Health Service and a staff specialist in [...]

(PRWEB) November 02, 2015 LGBT rights are in the spotlight as an extension of the Supreme Court and individual states' consideration of same-sex marriage, and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity [...]

Byline: Troy Graham June 08--The state Supreme Court on Friday denied Mayor Nutter's request to hear arguments on whether the city should be allowed to impose a contract on 6,800 [...]

Byline: Bob Warner March 08--Philadelphia's labor costs ate up the city budget at a record pace in 2012, with more of the same in the forecast, offering a simple and [...]

Byline: Bob Warner Feb. 21--Lawyers representing close to one million Pennsylvania workers -- including virtually all unionized government employees, from highway laborers to teachers -- have joined Philadelphia's largest municipal [...]

Byline: Bob Warner Feb. 02--The Nutter administration filed suit Friday seeking permission from Philadelphia Common Pleas Court to impose new contract terms -- including modest raises, potential furloughs, reduced overtime, [...]

Byline: Emilie Lounsberry March 21--For decades, prosecutors have relied on crime-solving techniques such as fingerprints, ballistics analysis, and eyewitness accounts to put people behind bars, even on death row. Now, [...]

Byline: Marcia Gelbart May 1--With no wage increases and a proposal to change pension benefits, the Nutter administration's initial proposal for a new contract was rejected by the president of [...]

Wednesday October 12, 2005 Section PASCO Page 3 3 Country Groups To Take Stage EMERSON DRIVE TO HEADLINE SHOW By CAROL JEFFARES HEDMAN Tribune correspondent DADE CITY - Emerson Drive, [...]

Stuart Malina, who was the musical director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra for seven seasons until this past spring, will lead that group as a guest conductor on Thursday and [...]

MENTION surgery and people automatically think blood transfusion. That pairing will soon be as passe as jokes about medical students passing out with scalpel in hand. The future in surgery [...]

Mar. 31--A GIANT question mark hangs over the city budget deliberations, which could make it hard to finalize the spending plan. Put simply: What the heck is going on with [...]

Dec. 17--MORE THAN five months after city union contracts expired in June, Mayor Nutter has made little headway in his efforts to get employee pension and benefit changes in order [...]

Sep. 21--With budget relief approved in Harrisburg, Mayor Nutter must now turn his attention to finishing negotiating labor contracts for the city's four municipal unions. Caution: This may get ugly. [...]