The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published an Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers to outline its recommended strategies for employers to use in responding [...]
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This may be heresy but, sometimes, mediation won’t work. The plaintiffs think they have the best case in the world, the best lawyers in the world and they can’t lose. Their lawyers [...]
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) just announced that some 800 taxpayers, all of whom earn more than $100,000 each year, have not been filing income tax returns. The IRS has decided the best way [...]
In the recent case of In re Harms, Case No. 18-22406, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania was faced with the question of whether debtors can litigate a [...]
On March 15, 2020, the long-contested Pittsburgh Paid Sick Days Act (the “Act”) will officially take effect. Under the Act, all employers with employees working in the City of [...]
The “Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019” (the “Act”) becomes effective for cases filed on and after February 19, 2020. The Act applies to “small business [...]
In a ruling that could impact employers around the country, a federal appeals court ruled that Philadelphia could prohibit employers from asking about and relying on job applicants’ salary [...]
Micro-Captive insurance companies, those organized under §831(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, have been under scrutiny by the IRS for several years. This provision was purposely created by [...]
Many business owners incorrectly believe that forming and operating their businesses in a corporation, limited liability company, or other form of business entity indefinitely and unassailably [...]
The assessed value of any Allegheny County property, commercial or residential, may be appealed annually by any interested party, including the owner, the school district or the municipality. The [...]
