Guevara, Phippard & James P.C.

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Employment Law

Payment of Benefits Under ERISA Pension Plan
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) establishes certain responsibilities for employers who offer pension plans to their employees as well as rules for how the plans must be administered. In addition to defining who may be eligible for benefits, how such benefits accrue, and how employees become vested in certain benefits, ERISA also sets certain rules for payment of benefits upon retirement. More...
Disability Discrimination in the Federal Workplace
Long before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibits discrimination against private sector employees and applicants on the basis of disability, Congress passed the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The Rehabilitation Act prohibits disability discrimination in the federal employment sector. More...
Remedies Available in Title VII Employment Discrimination Actions
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. Actionable employment discrimination can stem from adverse employment actions like being fired or demoted on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. It can also stem from a hostile work environment created by pervasive or substantial sexual harassment. If an employee believes that he or she is the victim of unlawful employment discrimination, he or she may pursue remedies under Title VII. More...
Investigatory Powers of the NLRB
In response to an increasingly hostile atmosphere between employers and employees, particularly where labor unions sought to organize, The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was passed in 1935 to governs the interactions between private sector employers and labor organizations. Part of the NLRA created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to administer the NLRA. The main functions of the NLRB are to hold representational elections to determine whether employees wish to be represented by a union and to enforce NLRA provisions prohibiting unfair labor practices by both employers and employees. More...
Unemployment Insurance -- Financing -- Setting Taxes
The federal-state unemployment insurance program is financed primarily by taxes collected from employers whose employees are protected by the program (and therefore entitled to collect benefits). Typically, these taxes are calculated as a percentage of the employer's payroll. The percentage, as well as the amount of the payroll taxed, however, may vary. More...

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