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October 2, 2025 | Labor & Employment
On June 10, 2025, the Pittsburgh City Council passed an ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Paid Sick Days Act, effective January 1, 2026. This amended law will provide for faster employee accrual rates and increased paid sick leave hours.
September 23, 2025 | Labor & Employment
On September 8, 2025, the Third Circuit issued a precedential opinion in Jorjani v. New Jersey Inst. of Tech., addressing First Amendment retaliation claims brought by public employees. The court analyzed the extent to which an employer may justify adverse employment actions by citing the need to promote the efficiency of public services, particularly when the employee’s speech, made in their capacity as a private citizen, touches on matters of public concern.
June 12, 2025 | Labor & Employment
By: Jacob Goldstein and John Nolan, June 12, 2025
Recap of the 2024 Muldrow Decision’s Impact on Employment Discrimination Lawsuits
In 2024, the United States Supreme Court reshaped the ...
May 30, 2025 | Labor & Employment, Public Entity & Civil Rights
In a precedential opinion issued on May 29, 2025, the Third Circuit addressed for the first time whether a non-student, non-employee plaintiff could bring Title IX claims against a university for alleged sexual harassment and retaliation that occurred outside the university’s education programs.
May 21, 2025 | Automobile & Trucking
While Pennsylvania law has barred drivers from reading, writing, or sending text messages while driving since 2012, other handheld cell phone uses were permitted. As of June 5, 2025, a new law that takes effect to ban to all handheld device use while driving.
May 7, 2025 | Labor & Employment
Improperly classifying an employee as exempt, when they are, in fact, entitled to these protections, can expose employers to liability not only on an individual basis, but on a much broader scale. The FLSA permits collective actions, allowing one or more employees to bring claims on behalf of a group of similarly situated individuals who were harmed by the same alleged conduct.
April 22, 2025 | Labor & Employment
On Friday, April 11, 2025, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued a 24-page opinion affirming a significant victory for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 956 in its dispute with the Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority (LANTA), stemming from the 2022 termination of a bus driver.
April 9, 2025 | Labor & Employment
The New Jersey Supreme Court overturned prior precedent holding that commissions earned by employees must be considered wages under the New Jersey Wage Payment Law (WPL). The Court’s ruling is widespread, holding that commissions can never be classified as supplementary incentives which are not covered under the WPL.
April 8, 2025 | Workers' Compensation
On April 2, 2025, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed the partial acceptance of a workers' compensation claim for a Philadelphia firefighter with colon cancer that a claims adjuster said had been mistakenly accepted because she made a computer error.
March 25, 2025 | Labor & Employment, Professional Liability
On March 19, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released two technical assistance documents addressing DEI policies, programs, and practices.
March 10, 2025 | Labor & Employment
On March 7, 2025, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued an opinion and order dismissing with prejudice a plaintiff’s claim under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA) that a potential employer refused to reasonably accommodate his disabilities when it rescinded a job offer after a pre-employment drug screen returned a positive result for marijuana.
February 21, 2025 | Automobile & Trucking
A recent opinion by U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that §1722 of Pennsylvania’s Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law does not bar recovery of future medical expenses in motor vehicle liability cases. The MVFRL, which is codified as 75 Pa. C.S. 1701, et seq., precludes the recovery of damages for medical expenses in cases where these expenses are “paid or payable” by certain types of insurance.
February 6, 2025 | Workers' Compensation
Act 126 became effective on December 28, 2024 and represents a major step forward in modernizing the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation system, by providing for direct deposit of workers’ compensation checks in many instances for injured workers.
January 31, 2025 | Labor & Employment
On January 15, 2025, in E.M.D. Sales, Inc. v. Carrera, the Supreme Court of the United States resolved a circuit split concerning the standard of proof an employer must satisfy to show that an employee is exempt from the minimum-wage and overtime-pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). In a 9-0 decision, the Court held that the preponderance of the evidence standard applies.
January 10, 2025 | Automobile & Trucking, Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith
PA Superior Court Reverses Course to Allow Liability Coverage and UIM Coverage Under the Same Policy
On January 3rd, 2025, the Pennsylvania Superior Court held that a plaintiff may recover both liability coverage and underinsured motorist (“UIM”) coverage from the same policy. See Erie Ins. Exch. v. Baluch, 2025 PA Super 2. This represents a departure from precedent established by Wolgemuth v. Harleysville Mut. Ins. Co., 370 Pa. Super. 51 (1988), and Newkirk v. United Servs. Auto. Ass’n, 388 Pa. Super. 54 (1989), cases which for nearly four decades have stood for the proposition that liability coverage and UIM coverage cannot come from the same policy. The Baluch decision challenges long held and widely accepted interpretations of both the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law (“MVFRL”) and the concept of stacking.
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