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The Family and Medical Leave Act (”FMLA”) was amended last year to provide for two new forms of leave for eligible employees who have a family member on active duty in the armed forces. These amendments afford eligible employees the opportunity to take “military caregiver leave” to care for covered service members. The other form [...]

The Family and Medical Leave Act (”FMLA”) was amended last year to provide for 2 new forms of leave for eligible employees who have a family member on active duty in the armed forces. Those amendments afford eligible employees the opportunity to take “military caregiver leave” to care for covered service members. The other form [...]

On May 12, 2009, the Pennsylvania Department of Aging and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, through its Office of Long-Term Living, announced creation of a new advisory council to focus on “quality management of in-home and community services” provided in the Commonwealth.
 
The DoA’s press release, entitled “Council Formed to Advise on Improving Services to [...]

By Eric Sinrod
Google’s Street View panoramic photo mapping service allows users to see street level photographs of specific locations, to take virtual walks while panning, rotating and zooming through cities around the world, and to discover shops, restaurants, parks, hotels and other spots in given geographic locations. Wonderful, right?
Well, not so fast. According to a [...]

 
By Paul Cherner
 
President Obama has announced his intention to nominate two union lawyers to be Board members of the NLRB.  They are Craig Becker and Mark G. Pearce.
 
Becker has been Associate General Counsel for the Service Employees International Union for 17 years and holds the same position at the AFL-CIO.  He has practiced and taught [...]

 
By Paul Cherner
 
President Obama has announced his intention to nominate 2 union attorneys to be Board members of the NLRB.  They’re Craig Becker and Mark G. Pearce.
 
Becker has been Associate General Counsel for the Service Employees International Union for 17 years and holds the same career opportunity at the AFL-CIO.  He has practiced and taught [...]

On Friday, May 1, 2009, Katherine Pearson (Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson School of Law), as Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Elder Law Section, sent an email message alerting section members that, “[a]s part of a plan to implement Governor Rendell’s proposed budget for the Commonwealth, legislation was introduced on April 28 that [...]

Advances in transportation certainly facilitate the spread of diseases like swine flu. With thousands of people traveling between cities and countries on a every single day basis, whether by planes, trains or automobiles, the speed and breadth of potential transmission is far greater than in early times.
However, technological advances have led to the creation of the Internet, [...]

According to ”IRS: Offshore account holders said fess up to lower penalties” (03/27/09) by Kevin McCoy, published in USA Today, the Internal Revenue Service finally is claiming its tax stake in unreported offshore accounts owned or controlled by U.S. citizens, under severe penalties if voluntary compliance is not forthcoming.
Trying to lure wealthy Americans to disclose assets [...]

By: Paul Cherner
The U.S. General Accounting Office (”GAO”) recently issued a scathing report about the DOL’s handling of FLSA investigations. The title of the report is “Wage and Hour Division’s Complaint Intake and Investigative Processes Leave Low Wage Workers Vulnerable to Wage Theft.”
In response, the new DOL Secretary, Hilda Solis, issued a News Release stating [...]