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The New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, upheld an imposition of sanctions against a plaintiff’s attorney for pursuing frivolous litigation against his client’s former employer.

President Barack Obama has selected two nominees to replace prior recess appointees on the National Labor Relations Board as part of a deal with Republican Senators.

On July 21, 2014, President Barack Obama signed an executive order protecting employees of federal contractors and the federal government from sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.

On August 29, the OIRA, which sits within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued a memorandum staying indefinitely the expanded reporting requirements of the new EEO-1 form.

On March 21, 2013, in Parisi v. Goldman, Sachs & Co., the Second Circuit compelled arbitration of the plaintiffs’ Title VII sex discrimination claims and ruled that a substantive statutory right to pursue a pattern-or-practice claim under Title VII does not exist.

The recent financial crisis has generated numerous claims against sponsors and fiduciaries of employee benefit plans that offer employer stock as an investment option.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently held that, when an employment discrimination plaintiff satisfies the requirements of a prima facie case under the McDonnell Douglas framework, and the relevant decision maker is unavailable, an employer can rebut the inference of discrimination by using circumstantial evidence to show its legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for the adverse employment action.

The U.S. Supreme Court barred the federal government from penalizing for-profit corporations for failing to cover morning-after pills under their employee health insurance plans.

In the recent case of Lupyan v. Corinthian Colleges Inc., the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that, when an employee alleged she did not receive notice of her Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") rights, the employer’s proof that it mailed such notice, without a return receipt or tracking information, was insufficient to avoid a lengthy litigation.

On January 25, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that three of President Obama’s "recess appointments" to the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") were unconstitutional in its Opinion in Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board.

Responding to criticism that recently issued guidance regarding brokerage windows, self-directed brokerage accounts or similar plan arrangements under participant-directed accounts were unworkable and exceeded the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL's) boundaries for interpretive guidance, the DOL reissued Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) 2012-02 on July 30, 2012, substantially narrowing the circumstances under which such investment alternatives must be included in the participant disclosure requirem

All employers, including nonprofit organizations, need to know when their employees can and cannot provide unpaid volunteer services to the organization.

In what promises to be the first in a series of rulings concerning the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over liquefied and compressed natural gas (LNG and CNG) projects and activities ..

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has an additional $30 million it can award in its third round of Connecticut's Microgrid Program...

On September 16, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that those accountable care organizations (ACOs) that have been in operation since 2012 have reduced Medicare spending by $817 million thus far.

On December 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the deadline for healthcare providers to meet Stage 2 standards for "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs) will be postponed by one year, to 2016.

On July 21, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an agreement with the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) under which UMMC agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle multiple alleged HIPAA violations.