From the Patriot News, comes a story that Mayor Eric Papenfuse will be introducing a new 10-year tax abatement program for new residential and commercial construction throughout the City:
Under the proposal, owners of existing residential properties would not pay
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Your First Line of Defense: a Well-Trained Workforce!
By Lee Tankle
Has your Company conducted training on the prevention of discriminatory harassment in your workforce recently? Does the Company regularly train supervisors and managers on how to recognize important employee issues and to promptly (and effectively) address them? For example, do…
PA: Justices Urged to Ban Informed Consent Forms from Strict Med Mal Trials
On Tuesday in Harrisburg, the justices heard arguments over whether informed consent forms should ever be admissible in strict med mal cases (those without allegations of informed consent violations). Plaintiff’s lawyer argued the forms could be used in a prejudicial way to insinuate that…
McNees Labor & Employment Group Ranked Tier 1 Practice By U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers
By Lee Tankle
We are pleased to announce that U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers ranked the McNees “Employment Law – Management” and “Labor Law – Management” practices as Tier 1 practices in the Harrisburg metropolitan area.…
Board Continues Aggressive Policing of Employee Social Media Use
By Lee Tankle
Stop me if you heard this one: the National Labor Relations Board recently reinstated employees who were discharged for comments made on their Facebook pages and found that the employer’s social media policy was unlawful.…
A Harrisburg LERTA – an Idea Worth Resurrecting?
The Patriot News is reporting that the City will be holding a meeting tonight to discuss a possible new LERTA tax-abatement program in the City. LERTA (short for “Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Act”) is a state law that permits…
NLRB Modifies Standard Remedial Notice to Include QR Code and Link to Board’s Web Site
By Lee Tankle
The National Labor Relations Board recently took the opportunity to update and modernize some of the standard language contained in the remedial notice that the Board requires to be posted as a remedy for unfair labor practices.…
EEOC’s Attack On Severance Agreements Dealt Blow
By Lee Tankle
As we noted earlier this year, the EEOC has begun filing legal challenges to relatively common provisions found in form severance agreements, based on the EEOC’s belief that such language unlawfully interferes with employees’ rights to file charges with and…
Court Weighs In On Employee Tip Pools
By Lee Tankle
We recently prepared a post for our friends at www.jurisbrewdence.com, who write about interesting issues in the craft beer industry (yeah we know, rough life right?). Our post was about a recent decision from the United States District Court for…
Screaming Profanities and Threatening the Boss Not Enough to Get You Fired According to NLRB
By Lee Tankle
Yep, that’s right. The employee’s outburst is too obscene to reproduce on the Blog, but suffice to say that the employee, who was employed for only about two months: (1) called the owner of the company a crook and a…