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Lebau & Neuworth Fight for Optimal Outcomes in Maryland Severance Cases

Posted on November 19, 2024 in

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Employment Non-Competes 2024 Update

Unlawful Practices in Eldercare

Lebau & Neuworth Continue to Win Wage Cases for Marylanders

Lebau Wins Whistleblower Complaint Against Department Of Veterans Affairs

LEBAU & NEUWORTH WIN EPIC DISCRIMINATION CASE FOR CLIENT

Maryland Established Paid Family Leave Effective in 2025

Posted on July 14, 2022 in Employee Rights, Employment Law, Family & Medical Leave Act

On April 9, 2022, the Maryland Legislature passed the Time to Care Act of 2022, which created a Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program in Maryland.

Lebau & Neuworth Fights & Wins for Home Aides, Companions & Caregivers

Posted on June 20, 2022 in Employee Rights, Employment Law, Fair Labor Standards Act, Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law, Minimum Wage Law, Wages, Overtime & Commissions

Home healthcare aides, caregivers and companions often are victims of unlawful wage practices. But Lebau & Neuworth attorneys have a dedicated history of representing these workers to get the pay owed to them.

Guarding Against Discrimination in Physician Compensation in Maryland

Posted on June 13, 2022 in Agreements & Negotiations, Employee Rights, Employment Law, Physicians Legal Representation

Lebau & Neuworth attorneys have expertise in representing physicians in Maryland and elsewhere in research, academic and clinician roles.

Lebau & Neuworth Win Epic Discrimination Case for Client

Posted on May 24, 2022 in Discrimination & Harassment, Employee Rights, Employment Law

Lebau & Neuworth has successfully represented a member of the Baltimore City Fire Department who claimed he was the victim of reverse race discrimination.

False Claims Act Settlements and Judgments Exceed $5.6 Billion in FY 2021

Posted on March 11, 2022 in Employee Rights, Employment Law, False Claims & Whistleblowing

Lebau & Neuworth attorneys have represented whistleblowers who were terminated from their jobs for objecting to and/or complaining about their employers’ unlawful conduct.

Severance Pay as Owed Wages Under Maryland Law: Get Three Times the Amount

Posted on March 6, 2022 in Employee Rights, Employment Law, Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law, Severance & Separation

Another Maryland court has ruled that severance pay required by an employment contract can be considered owed “wages” under the Maryland Wage Payment & Collection Law and just not an item that has to be provided by contract terms.

Supreme Court Delivers Win for Retirement-Plan Participants

Posted on February 19, 2022 in Employee Benefits, Employee Rights, Employment Law, ERISA - Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Pension & Retirement Benefits

Recently in Hughes v. Northwestern University, the Supreme Court issued a favorable decision for participants in employer-sponsored retirement plans, which are governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

Don’t Give Up – Fight For Your Full Retirement Benefits

Posted on February 14, 2022 in Employee Benefits, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Employee Rights, Employment Law, ERISA - Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Pension & Retirement Benefits

If you work for a private sector employer and have a retirement pension plan, your rights to those benefits are governed by the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or “ERISA.”

Federal Wage-Hour Law Expanded to Include Overtime ‘Gap’ Claims

Posted on January 28, 2022 in Employment Law, Fair Labor Standards Act, Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law, Wages, Overtime & Commissions

Recently in Connor v. Cleveland County North Carolina, the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, of which Maryland is part, held that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) allows claims for unpaid straight-time wages in weeks when an employee works overtime hours.

False Claims Act Celebrates Its 35th Anniversary as Powerful Weapon for Whistleblowers

Posted on November 22, 2021 in Employee Rights, Employment Law, False Claims & Whistleblowing

The Federal False Claims Amendments Act (FCA), which was signed into law on October 27, 1986, by President Ronald Reagan, just celebrated its 35th anniversary. he attorneys at Lebau & Neuworth have handled numerous FCA cases on behalf of whistleblowers.