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.
The Baltimore District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has gained the reputation for litigating cases on behalf of employees who may have been unable to obtain legal represent
After an employee files a discrimination or wrongful termination claim, discovery may yield previously unknown information about misconduct in which the employee had engaged while employed.
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