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Employee Benefit Plans

The most important disclosure that must be made under an ERISA plan is a summary plan description, which informs participants, beneficiaries, and others as to the different aspects of a plan and how it operates.

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

In 1947, Congress enacted the Labor-Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Act). The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) was created as an independent federal governmental agency to protect the free flow of commerce by minimizing the impact of labor-management disputes on the economy. The FMCS was designed to provide mediation, conciliation, and voluntary arbitration services to labor-related entities.

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 Eligibility

Background

Fair Labor Standards Act Salaried Workers Exemptions

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) requires employers to pay a minimum wage and a premium hourly rate (time and one-half pay) for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a given week. Under the FLSA, however, certain salaried employees are exempted from the overtime pay guarantee.

Unemployment Benefits - Protest -- Disqualification

The most frequent reasons for protest are those involving a protest against the payment of unemployment benefits chargeable against the employer because the claimant either voluntarily quit his employment or he was discharged for misconduct connected with his work. In regard to these bases of protests, the employer is in a unique position to know the facts because the employer was involved in the circumstances surrounding the discharge at the time it occurred and also because the facts will have occurred prior to the separation from the employer's employment of the claimant. Several other bases of protest (such as available to work and actively seeking work) are all items which may transpire subsequent to the date of separation from the employment and the circumstances of them may not even be within the knowledge of the employer.