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Employer Law Report is pleased to share with you the launching of Porter Wright’s latest blog – Employee Benefits Law Report – which we have created as a resource to help guide employers of all sizes through the complex administrative and legal challenges facing their employee benefit plans.
This blog – edited by my partners…
Those of you have been reading Employer Law Report over the past six months may have noted an addition to our home page recently in the lower portion of the left column. There, you will find my most recent tweets on Twitter from @BrianDHallEsq. Sounds a bit pretentious, I know, but every usable combination…
We are pleased to share with our Employer Law Report friends that Chambers USA has ranked Porter Wright’s Labor and Employment Practice as a “first-tier practice” in Ohio in their most recent report.
Continue Reading Porter Wright Ranks in First Tier of Labor and Employment Practices in Ohio in Chambers USA 2010
Porter Wright is deeply honored to be ranked among the 30 elite firms in the country when it comes to client service. In a national survey of in-house counsel at Fortune 1000 companies conducted by The BTI Consulting Group (BTI), Porter Wright ranked 22 out of 505 core firms named by in-house counsel.
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Here are our some of our recent headlines:
D.C. May Require Paid Sick Leave
Department of Homeland Security Once More Publishes Its No-Match Regulation
Supreme Court declines to hear retiree benefits case
Sixth Circuit Critiques Narrow Interpretation of Comparables…
Continue Reading Summary of Recent Employer Law Report Postings
Here are the headlines for the past week:
Employment Discrimination Charges Increased In 2007
Supreme Court Signals It May Address Whether “Make-Whole” Remedy Constitutes Equitable Relief Under ERISA…
Continue Reading Summary of Employer Law Report Postings for the Week of March 4 – March 10
This week’s headlines:
NLRB-Conducted Elections Will Be More Patriotic
U.S. Supreme Court Relaxes ADEA Charge-Filing Requirement
Supreme Court Holds That No Per Se Rule Governs Admissibility of Co-Worker Testimony Regarding Remarks by Non-Decision Makers
Recent Court Decision Highlights Non-Compete Drafting Issues
Attorney General Announces Increased Fines for Unauthorized Employees
Ohio Workers’ Compensation Subrogation Statutes Upheld…
Continue Reading Summary of Employer Law Report Postings for the Week of February 26 – March 3
This week’s headlines:
U.S. Supreme Court Weighs In Regarding Suits for Individual Injuries Under ERISA
State-Fund Employer Left Holding the Bag for Unwanted Settlement
NLRB General Counsel Issues Two Memoranda Good For Employer “Salt” Free Diets
Bad Timing? Sixth Circuit Holds That Timing May Be Enough To Establish Retaliation
Porter Wright to Present at FMLA Master Class in Columbus on March 5 and in Cleveland on March 11…
Continue Reading Summary of Employer Law Report Postings for the Week of February 19 – February 25
This past week’s headines:
Accuracy of Exempt Classification Key to Avoiding Class Action Overtime Claims
Op-Ed from Today’s Columbus Dispatch: “Immigration Crackdown Hurts Economy”
Proposed FMLA Regulations Largely Disappointing for Employers…
Continue Reading Summary of Employer Law Report Postings for the Week of February 12 – February 18
Here are the headlines as of this afternoon for the last week:
A Case of Mind Control: Ohio Employers Can Stop Former Employees From Using Memory to Misappropriate Trade Secrets
DOL Publishes Proposed Amendments to FMLA
DOL Announces Proposed Amendments to the Temporary Agricultural Worker Program
Industrial Commission Rejects Affidavit Testimony
A Disconcerting Look Behind the Industrial Commission’s Curtain…
Continue Reading Summary of Employer Law Report Postings for the Week of February 4 – February 11
