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Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Church v. EEOC: Supreme Court Confirms Ministerial Exception to Employment

By Jeremy J. Gray of Zuber & Taillieu

The Supreme Court recently confirmed the applicability of the ministerial exception found under the First Amendment in precluding the application of employment discrimination laws to ministers. In Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Church and School v. EEOC, 132 S.Ct. 694 (2012), the Supreme Court used the ministerial exception to preclude a minister’s claim… More...

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Lower House Passes Bill Restricting Excessive Pay to Employees

Pay For Performance Act of 2009  |  H.R. 1664  |  4/1/2009

By a vote of 247 to 171, the U.S. House of Representatives Pay For Performance Act of 2009 (H.R .1664). The bill ensures that employees of failed companies rescued by the federal government do not get rewarded for their company’s poor performance. More...

House Democrats Revive Bill Overhauling Federal Labor Law

Employee Free Choice Act  |  H.R. 1409  |  3/10/2009

More than 200 Democratic members of the House of Representatives, led by George Miller of California have revived the Employee Free Choice Act (“EFCA”), a bill that seeks to overhaul federal labor law. More...

House Passes Bill to Provide FMLA Coverage for Airline Flight Crews

Airline Flight Crew Technical Corrections Act  |  H.R. 2744  |  2/9/2009

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation to clarify that flight attendants and pilots are entitled to take unpaid family and medical leave to recover from an illness and care for newborn children and sick or injured family members. More...

Bill Allowing Workers to Swap OT Wages for PTO Re-filed in Congress

The Family-Friendly Workplace Act  |  H.R. 6025  |  2/10/2009

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Washington, has re-introduced in the House of Representatives, a bill that gives employees in the private sector the choice of swapping their overtime wages for paid time off. More...

FMLA Amendment to Include "Same-Sex" Partner, Adult Child or Sibling Gets Support

Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act  |  H.R. 2792  |  7/24/2008

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, (D-NY), together with bipartisan co-sponsors Representatives Frank, Baldwin, Woolsey, and Shays, introduced an amendment to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 ("FMLA"), that widens the coverage of this law. More...

Bill to Spur Job Creation and Preservation Now in the Senate after House Passage

Making Supplemental Appropriations for Job Creation and Preservation, Infrastructure Investment  |  H.R.7110  |  11/17/2008

The Senate has finally placed in its legislative calendar a bill that seeks to spur job creation and preservation in the whole country, after the House of Representatives passed its own version in September 2008, and transmitted it to the Senate. Specifically, the proposed legislation amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to increase the alternative amounts required for first-tier benefits in state emergency unemployment compensation accounts. It also requires the amount to be equal to the lesser of: (1) 80% (currently, 50%) of the total amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable to the individual during the individual's benefit year; or (2) 20 (currently, 13) times the individual's average weekly benefit amount for the benefit year. More...

Bill Against Discriminatory Pay Still in the Senate Despite Passage by House

Paycheck Fairness Act  |  H.R. 1338  |  7/31/2008

A bill that seeks to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, remains pending with the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.  The House of Representatives has long passed H.R.  1338, otherwise known as the More...

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Companies Mentioned

Employment Law

The following companies are mentioned in Employment Law Updates:

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Ontario Police Department

City of Ontario

Arch Wireless Operating Company, Inc.

Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

B & D Contracting

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee

Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.

Agere Systems, Inc. f.k.a. Lucent Technologies, Inc.

Tulsa Winch, Inc.

Ramsey Winch, Inc.

Norris

DP Manufacturing, Inc.

Auto Crane Company

Autozone, Inc.

Southwestern Bell Video Services, Inc.

Temco Service Industries, Inc.

SBC Telecom, Inc.

14 Penn Plaza LLC

SBC Services, Inc.

City of Philadelphia

Pacific Telesis Group

Pacific Bell Telephone Co.

Northeastern Land Services, Ltd. d.b.a. NLS Group

Pacific Bell Information Services

LA Weight Loss, Inc. n.k.a. Pure Weight Loss, Inc.

Advanced Solutions, Inc.

Gold’n Plump Poultry, Inc.

Cardone Industries, Inc.

The Work Connection

Pitt-Ohio Express, Inc.

Lehigh Valley Physicians Business Services, Inc.

BVP, LLC d.b.a. Big Vanilla Pasadena

Lehigh Valley Health Services, Inc.

N.F.A.C., Inc. d.b.a. Big Vanilla Athletic Club

Huron Valley Ambulance, Inc.

J.C. Penney Corp.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

American Insurance Co.

Murphy Ford Inc. d.b.a. Murphy Ford Lincoln Mercury Murphy Ford Inc.

City of Chicago

United Airlines, Inc.

Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co.

Equal Employment Opportunity

New Process Steel L.P.

The Star Tribune Company

National Labor Relations Board

Scolari's Warehouse Markets, Inc. d.b.a. Scolari's Food and Drug

Rent-A-Center West, Inc.

EGL, Inc.