A mortgage loan is covered by special Truth-in-Lending Act HOEPA requirements if the annual percentage rate on the loan at consummation will exceed by more than a "specified percentage" the yield o
The Supreme Court recently heard arguments regarding an employee’s appeal from the Eleventh Circuit’s decision limiting her right to challenge disparate pay decisions to those occurring within the
On September 29, 2006, the National Labor Relations Board issued decisions in Oakwood Healthcare, Inc., 348 NLRB No. 37 and two companion cases responding to NLRB v.
Labor and employment law attorneys may not normally think of severance pay as "deferred compensation." Yet that is the position the Internal Revenue Service has taken in its proposed regulations un
Each year, many of the approximately 235 million wage-earning reports filed with the Social Security Agency (SSA) result in a mismatch between the employee’s name and reported social security numbe
The District of Columbia Bar Legal Ethics Committee recently published an opinion prohibiting settling parties from agreeing to keep confidential information already in the public record. (D.C.