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SCOTUS overturns Circuit Courts’ Interpretation of ERISA Church Plan Exemption for Church-Affiliated Employers

Kristina Curry
Kristina E. Curry, Legal News, Matthew D. Stokely, Workers Compensation & Employment

On June 5, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton, No. 16-74, resolving the question of whether church-affiliated hospitals’ employee defined-benefit pension plans qualify for the ERISA church plan exemption, despite those plans not having been originally “established” by a...

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Nationwide Injunction Issued to STOP implementation of New FSLA Overtime Rule Increasing Salary Basis for White Collar Exemptions

Matt Stokely
Legal News, Legal News for Businesses, Legal News for Individuals, Matthew D. Stokely, News, Senney Says by Jeff Senney, Workers Compensation & Employment, Workers' Compensation and Employment Law

In a surprising victory for employer groups and 21 states in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Eastern District of Texas, Judge Amos Mazzant issued a nationwide preliminary injunction that effectively stopped implementation of the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule, which...

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New Law to Assist Families with Disabilities

Joe Mattera
Joseph P. Mattera, Legal News, Legal News for Individuals, News, Probate, Estate Planning and Elder Law, Workers Compensation & Employment

On December 19, 2014, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015.  The law, for the first time, allows military members to name special needs trusts as beneficiaries of Survivor Benefit Plans (SBP).  Through SBPs members of the military can elect...

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BWC to issue "Another Billion Back" to Ohio Employers and Local Governments

Kristina Curry
Kristina E. Curry, Legal News, Legal News for Businesses, News, Senney Says by Jeff Senney, Workers Compensation & Employment, Workers' Compensation and Employment Law

Ohio Employers may be receiving another pleasant surprise in the mail beginning around November 7, 2014.  The BWC will begin to send out checks to employers as part of the “Another Billion Back” program proposed in August. Ohio employers will receive another $1 billion rebate and...

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EEOC Updates Workplace Guidelines

Jeff Senney
Kristina E. Curry, Legal News, Legal News for Businesses, News, Senney Says by Jeff Senney, Workers Compensation & Employment, Workers' Compensation and Employment Law

The EEOC recently made its first update to its workplace pregnancy discrimination guidelines in nearly 30 years.  The new guidelines expand the employment protection of women due to pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth and make it clear that the...

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Workers' Compensation: Are your Independent Contractors really Employees?

Kristina Curry
Kristina E. Curry, Legal News, Legal News for Businesses, News, Workers Compensation & Employment, Workers' Compensation and Employment Law

Many business owners believe that because they consider a worker to be an independent contractor, they do not have to provide workers’ compensation coverage for them. Surprisingly, this may not be the case where an independent contractor who is injured at your job site files a...

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