Put this in the “boring, but important” category. Last month the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (or “SUB”) payments are not considered wages and thus not taxable to the employee or the employer for FICA.
First, a little education. What are SUB payments? When an employer makes a reduction in
Remember that cruise ship that sank off the coast of Italy last year? Remember the bumbling captain that ran the ship aground, cost the lives of 32 people, and abandoned the ship before his passengers? His name is Francesco Schettino and the cruise line he worked for let him go immediately after the incident. He
Who, What, Why . . .
Who does it apply to: All employers, whether subscribers to workers’ compensation insurance or not.
What is the issue: Employees of businesses that make workers’ compensation claims sometimes engender the aggravation of their employer. Employers think the employee is faking injury, milking the claim, or simply preventing the employer
Yesterday the Huffington Post reported an interesting story about how Maneesh Sethi used Craig’s List to employ a “slapper” to keep him from wasting time on Facebook when he should be working. Digging deeper, I found Sethi’s own blog post on his website Hackthesystem.com where he described how he first came upon the idea. Using
Sometimes posts should just be fun. One of my co-workers forwarded me a story yesterday on Lowering the Bar, a humor site for lawyers – about lawyers. Apparently, a law firm in San Mateo, California has decided to hire some new associate lawyers and they are doing so with a little twist . .
Who, What, Why . . .
Who does it apply to: All employers that use criminal backgroundchecks to evaluate applicants or employees.
What is the issue: Blacks and Hispanic people are statistically more likely to be arrested and convicted of crimes than whites. As a consequence, employers who make a blanket rule that any person
A jury in an Atlanta Federal Court has determined that a white male was discriminated against according to a recent article by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Plaintiff, former Human Services Deputy Director Doug Carl, filed suit five years ago when he was denied the Human Services Director’s job in favor of a black female.
Who, What, Why . . .
Who does it apply to: All employers with 100 or more full-time employees (not counting workers who have less than 6 months on the job and employees who work fewer than 20 hours per week) or employ 100 or more employees that work 4,000 hours per week combined.
What
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Augusta National Golf Club has admitted two women as members: financier Darla Moore and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
I don’t know much about golf, but I do know that Augusta National is hallowed ground in the minds of most golfers. As an employment lawyer, I also
Ellen Pao is a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers. She has recently filed a lawsuit against the company for sexual harassment as the Huffington Post reports. Pao alleges that she was harassed by a senior partner in the firm who began excluding her from key meetings