Legal Alerts
May 24, 2018
President Donald Trump signed into law a bill which will roll back and loosen significant portions of the Dodd Frank Act of 2010. Mainly, the threshold for tighter federal oversight of U.S. banks is raised from $50 billion to $250 billion in assets.
Unaffected are the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Programs, which reward ...
May 21, 2018
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) does not bar employers from subjecting employees to mandatory arbitration agreements that prohibit employees from bringing collective actions. As many as 60 million American workers may be subject to such mandatory arbitration agreements. Such...
April 25, 2018
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on April 24, 2018, that Altaba – the company formerly known as Yahoo! Inc. – had agreed to pay the SEC $35 million to resolve claims that it misled investors by failing to disclose the cybersecurity breach that enabled hackers to steal the personal data of hundreds of...
April 20, 2018
The 11-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court ruled that an employer illegally discriminated against plaintiff Aileen Rizo, a California math consultant, by paying her thousands of dollars less than her male counterparts due to the employer’s practice of paying employees based on previous salaries.
Under the Equal Pay Act,...
March 28, 2018
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that the state’s whistleblower law allows for noneconomic damages to be classified as “actual damages,” thereby increasing the amount successful whistleblowers can receive under the law.
Former Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission employee Ralph Bailets was fired in 2008...
March 15, 2018
The U.S. Appeals Court for the Sixth Circuit held today that R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act when it fired a funeral director after she told her boss that she planned to transition from male to female.
Title VII prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, among other...
May 10, 2017
Katz, Marshall and Banks partner Debra Katz was quoted in a Law360 article entitled, "9th Circ. Ruling Deepens Debate Over Equal Pay Act," which discusses the Ninth Circuit's recent ruling on the Equal Pay Act. Equal pay advocates have argued that, by allowing employers to show "business reasons" for pay disparity alongside...
August 18, 2016
Katz, Marshall and Banks partner David Marshall was quoted in an article entitled "SEC Cracks Down on Waivers in Severance Agreements," published in the Legal & Compliance newsletter of the Society for Human Resource Management. The article, written by SHRM Legal Editor Allen Smith, focuses on the SEC’s decision to...
September 18, 2015
Katz, Marshall & Banks partners Alison Asarnow and David Marshall published an article in Law360 entitled “Berman Is Good News For Whistleblowers And Their Counsel.” The article explains the September 10 decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Berman v. Neo@Ogilvy LLC, which held that the Dodd-Frank Act‘s ...
June 9, 2015
On June 9, 2015, Westlaw’s Journal of Employment Law quoted Avi Kumin in its story about the Supreme Court’s important decision in the EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch case. In the Abercrombie case, the Supreme Court held that a job applicant need not demonstrate that an employer had definitive proof of her need for a religious...
