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Employment Law

HIV/AIDS Employment Discrimination and
State and Local Law) More...
Federal Employees Covered Under the Labor-Management Relations Statute
In 1962, federal employees were first granted the right to participate in collective bargaining through labor unions of their choice. That right was expanded and solidified in Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, known as the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute. More...
Good Faith Bargaining under National Labor Relations Act
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA) prescribes the rules for the collective bargaining process. Collective bargaining occurs when employees select a bargaining representative (usually a union) to negotiate with their employer on their behalf. The union and the employer work out the details of the employees' pay, benefits, working conditions, discipline, and other work-related issues. The resulting agreement, called a collective bargaining agreement, governs the relationship among the employees, the union, and the employer. More...
The National Mediation Board
In 1926, Congress passed the Railway Labor Act (RLA) to govern the resolution of disputes within the railroad industry. The RLA was amended in 1934, and the National Mediation Board (NMB) was created. In 1936, the jurisdiction of the RLA was expanded to include the airline industry. The NMB is an independent federal agency tasked with enforcing and interpreting the RLA. This article summarizes the major functions of the NMB. More...
Employee Benefit Plans
In 1993, ERISA was amended by the Omnibus Reconciliation Act to allow children of a group health plan participant to receive health plan benefits under an order from a state court or agency in a domestic relations case even if the child was not ordinarily eligible for such benefits under the terms of the plan. Such an order is called a "medical child support order," and the child who is the subject of the order is referred to as an "alternate recipient" of the health plan benefits. More...

Areas Of Practice

  • Family Law including Dissolutions of Marriage Divorce
  • Custody
  • Child Support
  • Elder Law Probate including Uncontested and Contested Probate Litigation
  • Domestic Partnerships
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