By Jeremy J. Gray of Zuber & Taillieu
In a split with other circuits, the Third Circuit recently limited relief available to benefit plan administrators under ERISA. In US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, 663 F.3d 671 (3d Cir. 2011), the Third Circuit held that the “appropriate equitable relief” available under ERISA § 502(a)(3) to plan administrators can be… More...
The draft Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (“HIRE”) Act of 2010 is a bipartisan legislative proposal authored by Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and seeks to provide hiring incentives for employers and extend unemployment benefits. More...
U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), together with Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Carl Levin (D-MI) and Mark Begich (D-AK), has introduced legislation to create a job creation tax credit. More...
The bipartisan Hire Now Tax Cut Act of 2010, which is co-sponsored by Senators Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., would allow any private-sector employer that hires a worker who had been unemployed for at least 60 days to not have to pay the employer’s share (6.2 percent) of the Social Security payroll tax on that employee for the remainder of 2010. More...
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Congressman David Price (D-N.C.) have introduced companion bills in the Senate and House to ensure accountability under U.S. law for American contractors and employees working abroad. More...
The “Strengthening Our Economy Through Employment and Development (SEED) Act,” informally known as “Cash for Jobs,” would take $10 billion in existing funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“TARP”) and re-allocate it to creating jobs in the private and public sectors. More...
The Return of Talent Act provides an exception to the continued physical presence requirement for Legal Permanent Residents (“LPRs”) who assist the U.S. government and United Nations in crises abroad. More...
The U.S. Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee has passed the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009, which would allow federal employees to give their same-sex partners health insurance, life insurance, government pensions, and other employment related benefits and obligations that are available to heterosexual married couples. More...
U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and Herb Kohl (D-WI) have introduced legislation to help Americans ensure they do not outlive their retirement savings. More...
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Representatives George Miller (D-CA), Chairman of the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, and John McHugh (R-NY) have re-introduced legislation that would strengthen the law requiring employers to notify workers and communities of mass layoffs or plant closings. More...
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has decided to favorably report, by a vote of 23-12, the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009 (“DBPO”), a legislation that would provide the same family benefits to lesbian and gay federal civilian employees as are already provided to employees with different-sex spouses. More...
