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January 25, 2013
DOL guidance may increase FMLA requests for care of adult children

As a result of a U.S. Department of Labor administrator’s interpretation (No. 2013-1) of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) on Jan. 14, employers can expect more requests from employees seeking protection under the act to care for adult children unable to care for themselves.

December 21, 2012
More employees covered by self-insured health plans

The percentage of U.S. workers in private-sector self-insured health plans has been increasing. In 2011, 58.5% of workers with employer-provided health coverage were in self-insured plans, up from 40.9% in 1998, according to a November 2012 report by the not-for-profit Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).

August 1, 2012
FLSA: The dinosaur in the room

With most laws, employers have less difficulty meeting the laws’ mandates as time goes by and they become more familiar with the requirements.

Not so with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), where lawsuits have multiplied as the law has increasingly fallen out of step with the modern workplace, according to Paul DeCamp, an attorney in the Washington, D.C., area office of Jackson Lewis, and former administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division.

May 16, 2012
Labor Department ramps up wage and hour enforcement

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) wage and hour enforcement has become markedly more aggressive under the Obama administration, according to Paul DeCamp, former administrator of the Wage and Hour Division under President George Bush and now an attorney at Jackson Lewis’ Washington, D.C., regional office.

November 30, 2010
ABC Supply announces Bradco hires

ABC Supply, which acquired Bradco Supply in a roofing mega-merger in June 2010, has announced...

August 1, 2007
The grass is sometimes greener

Reel mowers, though still far behind gas-powered mowers in terms of sales, are benefiting from...

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