On June 6, 2024, Ocean City, Maryland, served as the backdrop for the MSBA Legal Summit and Annual Meeting. Among the standout sessions at this year’s event was a presentation co-led by Attorney Stephen Cornelius from Eccleston & Wolf. The session, titled “Ethical Considerations and the Role of Attorneys and Employers Handling Employment Decisions and…
Read MoreFor companies facing employment claims, having a reliable and experienced defense team is crucial. In a recent three-day trial, Eccleston & Wolf attorneys Gregg Viola and Mark Johnson secured a successful defense verdict for a locally owned company in a case involving a wage dispute. The lawsuit filed in the Circuit Court for Anne…
Read MoreThe U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has updated its workplace discrimination poster. A new version, uploaded to the EEOC website on Oct. 19, 2022, must now be posted. Under federal law, employers are required to post a notice describing the federal laws prohibiting job discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, equal…
Read MoreOn May 24, 2022, in Paniconi v. Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health, the court granted the employer’s motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim due to the fact that the lawsuit was filed one day too late. According to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the day that a…
Read MoreOn March 16, 2021, Washington D.C. passed The Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act (“The Act”), a comprehensive ban on non-compete agreements similar to previous restrictions in California, Montana, North Dakota and Oklahoma. Here, the employment law attorneys at Eccleston and Wolf discuss the immediate effects on District employers. Overview of the Ban on Non-Compete…
Read MoreThe United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently released guidance and standards relating to employee safety in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. These documents outline the most commonly cited issues during inspections since the pandemic began in March of 2020, and provides insight on how employers should be protecting…
Read MoreIn late January 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released breakdowns of the total amount of workplace discrimination charges the agency received in the 2019 fiscal year. Here, the attorneys at Eccleston & Wolf provide an overview of the comprehensive enforcement and litigation statistics provided by the EEOC as well as significant trends…
Read MoreEpic Systems Corp. v. Lewis In Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 1612 (2018), the United States Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether an agreement requiring an employer and an employee to resolve disputes through individualized arbitration (i.e. waiving class and collective proceedings) is enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and…
Read MoreGentry v. East West Partners Club Management Co. Inc., 816 F.3d 228 (4th Cir. 2016) On March 4, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued its opinion in Gentry v. East West Partners Club Management Co. Inc., 816 F.3d 228 (2016). In Gentry, the Fourth Circuit rejected the argument that…
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