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J. Wilson Eaton; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article April 24, 2012, previously published on April 19, 2012 Employers will not be required to post by April 30, 2012 the NLRB’s notice informing employees of Section 7 rights.
| | U.S. Fifth Circuit of Appeals Invalidates Arbitration Clause in At-Will Handbook, Applying Texas Law
J. Wilson Eaton; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article March 6, 2012, previously published on March 1, 2012 Employers with arbitration agreements in their employee handbooks should immediately review the terms of the agreement and the handbook’s expression of the employment at will rule. Recently, in Carey v. 24 Hour Fitness, USA, Inc, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (with...
| | Today’s Work Environment Suggests Employers Should Examine Their Non-Competition Agreements to Ensure Clarity
Timothy M. Threadgill; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article February 22, 2012, previously published on February 21, 2012 Technology has made today’s business world smaller than ever. With the advancements of the internet, computers and mobile telephones, many employees are not confined to working in a particular office building. Instead, it is not uncommon for employees to work in a town where their employer...
| | NLRB Invalidates Non Union Class Action Waivers
J. Wilson Eaton; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article February 22, 2012, previously published on February 21, 2012 The National Labor Relations Board’s January 3, 2012 ruling in D.R. Horton, Inc., 357 NLRB No. 184 (2012) invalidates all non-union employees’ class action waivers contained in arbitration agreements. NLRB Chairman Mark Gaston Pierce and now-former Member (and former union attorney)...
| | FMLA May Protect Pre-Eligibility Requests for Post-Eligibility Leave
David P. Jaqua; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article February 22, 2012, previously published on February 21, 2012 In order to receive FMLA protection, an employee must be both eligible, meaning she has the requisite length of service and hours (at least 12 months total prior employment and at least 1,250 hours worked during the previous 12-month period), and entitled to leave, meaning an employee has...
| | NLRB Publishes Final Rule Amending Election Case Procedures - Senator Promises Challenge To “Ambush Election Rule”
J. Wilson Eaton, Bart N. Sisk, Jeffrey A. Walker; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article January 3, 2012, previously published on December 2011 The National Labor Relations Board on December 22, 2011 published its final rule amending its representation case (i.e. “election”) procedures. The final rule is due to take effect on April 30, 2012.
| | Rapanos for Dummies: 3rd Circuit Clears Up Confusion About Scope of the Corps’ Clean Water Act Jurisdiction
James R. Farrell; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article November 22, 2011, previously published on November 16, 2011 It only took five years, but courtesy of the Third Circuit in United States v. Donovan, we now have a straightforward and wellreasoned opinion that appears to have cleared up the murky wetlands jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In June 2006, the Supreme Court decided Rapanos v....
| | End of Year Tax Planning: Taking Advantage of Expiring Tax Incentives
Ronald I. Loeb, W. Jeff McGoff, Samantha R. Moore, John B. (Jack) Nichols, Kurt G. Rademacher, Phillip (Seth) Rowland, J. Paul Varner; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article November 14, 2011, previously published on October 2011 With year end quickly approaching, taxpayers should be aware of expiring federal income tax incentives. This summary highlights several of these tax incentives that expire at the end of this year and ways in which taxpayers can utilize them before they disappear.
| | The Department of Labor Fee Transparency Initiatives: Part 2 - Mandatory Service Provider Fee Disclosures
Gilbert C. Van Loon; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article August 4, 2011, previously published on July 2011 For a number of years, the Department of Labor has been concerned about the amount of fees and expenses charged to tax-deferred retirement plans and the transparency of fee and expense information available to plan fiduciaries and plan participants to assess their reasonableness and effect on...
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