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The plaintiffs await a decision from the United States Supreme Court on whether it will review the D.C. Circuit's decision.

Under what is called the "fiduciary exception," ERISA benefits plan beneficiaries normally will be given access to otherwise privileged communications between the ERISA administrator and his or her lawyer because they involve plan administration.

After a former Best Buy employee filed a putative class action alleging misclassification of store managers as exempt, his attorney collected contact information for all putative class members...

Dan Schwartz speaks with journalist Andrew Larson in the article Reasonable accommodation or unfair expectation? Employers grapple with hybrid work policies as employees test limits.

In this partner spotlight, David Tracey, Firm Managing Partner and Public Interest Litigation Practice Group Co-Chair at Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, sits down with firm Chairman David Sanford to discuss the experiences that led him to a career in public interest and civil rights law. David traces his sense of purpose back to his grandparents, whose encounters with discrimination illustrated for him at an early age how profound inequality can shape a life

The Second Circuit held that the owner of a contributing employer to multiemployer benefit plans breached his fiduciary duties by failing to make required contributions and was thus personally liable for the delinquencies, interest, and attorneys’ fees.

The recent Supreme Court decision creates uncertainty about the Department of Labor's ability to use an administrative proceeding, based on a whistleblower action...

Wilfert Williams sued the Sacramento River Cats Baseball Club under a common law tort action for allegedly failing to hire him as an assistant visitor clubhouse manager because of his race.

A federal district court in Pennsylvania concluded that Irene Najmola, a former employee of Chester County Hospital, sufficiently pled a retaliation claim under ERISA section 510 by alleging that her employment was terminated shortly after returning from short-term disability leave.

Erin Beaumont-Jacques worked as a district manager for various insurance companies pursuant to a District Manager Appointment Agreement.

Two years is too long to wait before reporting an EEOC charge to your EPL carrier, according to a recent a court decision from the Western District of Virginia.

So blogging will be light to nonexistent for the next two weeks.

A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal decision serves as a reminder of the importance of due diligence...

A White male plaintiff has filed a lawsuit against Edward Jones, challenging the company's "Goodknight" diversity program that allegedly incentivizes financial advisors to transition clients to female or other diverse advisors. The case represents one of several recent reverse discrimination lawsuits targeting corporate DEI initiatives, raising questions about the legal boundaries of workplace diversity programs under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

After sending 1,330 e-mails to employees of Case New Holland, Inc. and its affiliates in an alleged effort to solicit plaintiffs to commence a class action lawsuit, the federal EEOC found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit.

Continuing a trend in other Circuits, the Eighth Circuit held that a service provider that was contracted to provide the 401(k) plan's investment options does not act as an ERISA fiduciary...

Elise Bloom leads the Proskauer team that represents Major League Baseball (MLB) and 29 Clubs in a wage and hour putative class/collective action brought by minor league baseball players.

In Ridout v. JBS USA, LLC, Lyle Ridout was discharged as superintendent at a pork processing plant in Iowa after an incident arising out of an equipment failure.