Nadine Roddy—Senior Attorney
The 401(k) plan is perhaps the most popular form of tax-advantaged savings and investment vehicle for retirement offered by American employers under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Many plans
Nadine Roddy—Senior Attorney
May an employer ask an employee whether they are thinking about retiring sometime in the foreseeable future without running afoul of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)? Some federal courts
Nadine Roddy—Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group
Over the last two decades, over two-thirds of the states have enacted legislation authorizing the use of marijuana and marijuana products for medical purposes by persons with debilitating conditions.
Suzanne L. Bailey—Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a fertile source of new litigation: challenges to mask mandates, challenges to vaccine mandates, construction of child custody visitation agreements in light of COVID-19, assertion
Nadine Roddy—Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group
Recently, a federal district court sitting in New York held that an employee’s prior release of a claim for compensatory damages for unlawful employment discrimination did not preclude his claim under
Nadine Roddy—Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group
One of the more difficult issues in the employment discrimination context has been the determination of whether an employee who is charged with misconduct toward another employee is a “supervisor” or
Nadine Roddy—Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group
In a closely watched case, California v. Texas, 141 S. Ct. 2104 (2021), the Supreme Court recently turned back a third challenge to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Nadine Roddy—Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group
An exotic dancer was an “employee” of an adult entertainment club under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), even though a written agreement disclaimed an employment relationship, a federal district court
Nadine Roddy—Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group
An employer that discharges an individual for being homosexual or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Supreme Court held 6-3 in one of the last
Nadine Roddy—Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group
On March 18, 2020, the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 (“Families First Act”), Pub. L. No. 116-127, was signed into law. The measure is the second in a
