Lebau & Neuworth Attorneys Provide Updates on Maryland Employment Law Guide
Lebau & Neuworth attorneys Devan Wang and Richard Neuworth recntly made presentations that updated several important chapters on Maryland Employment Law Guide. The July 22, 2021, program, sponsored by the Maryland State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section, was designed to updated practitioners on recent developments as a result of COVID-19 and the new Biden Administration and how their approaches differed from the previous administration.
Devan presented on the issue of wages and how the new administration has changed several policies from the previous administration concerning the tip credit rule, the day rate, decisions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit since the last supplement of the Maryland Law Guide.
To view Devan’s presentation, click here.
Richard presented on the topics of benefits and whistleblowing. With respect to benefits, material was presented concerning the new mini-Warn statute, important changes with respect to COBRA notices and ERISA decisions. He also edited and wrote the chapters on the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Maryland Wage and Hour laws and ERISA in the previous supplement.
To view Richard’s presentation, click here.
If you need legal assistance with any of these employee-related topics, contact Lebau & Neuworth at (410) 296-3030 or lebauneuworth.com/contact-us.
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: COVID 19 Created Additional Ways to Prove Disability in Various Benefits Cases
On July 19, 2021, Lebau & Neuworth partner attorney Richard Neuworth made a presentation on the issues of COVID 19 and Social Security Disability, Workers Compensation and Long-Term Disability to the viewers of Lawline. The program was designed to show that COVID 19 produced a new paradigm that created additional ways to prove disability in Social Security Disability, Workers Compensation and Long-Term disability benefits cases.
Through the program, Richard provided particular emphasis concerning long-haul syndrome and how that increases the ways that claimants can obtain both a source of income and medical coverage for COVID or fears of COVID that prevent individuals from returning to work or their past relevant program.
Richard also offered other information concerning sources that examined what long-haul syndrome is and how it affects individuals depending on age and amount of infection; and other information concerning how to prove disability.
To view all of the information presented by Richard, click here.
The attorneys at Lebau & Neuworth are highly experienced in Worker Disability issues. If you need any advice, assistance and representation for COVID-related disability benefits, contact us at (410) 296-3030 or lebauneuworth.com/contact-us.
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: Whistleblowing Issues in The Post-Covid Environment
Lebau & Neuworth partner attorney Richard Neuworth made a presentation for the Maryland State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section on November 18, 2020, regarding the issues of Whistleblowing in The Post-Covid Environment. The presentation addressed two
specific issues which concerned fraud being committed based on recent federal programs offered to private businesses and health and safety issues concerning employees being required to come back to work.
With respect to fraud, Richard presented both sides of all federal and state remedies that are available to whistleblowers that work for private businesses that attempt to defraud either federal or state entities. Statutes that were examined included the federal and state false claims act, FIFREA, Dodd Frank, Sarbanes Oxley and rights of employees that work for private employers that receive federal contracts.
With respect to health and safety issues, the remedies that were discussed included OSHA, National Labor Relations Act, the rights of at-will employees to engage in protected activity without fear of reprisal.
Download and see the presentation: CLICK HERE.
If you believe you need assistance with a whistleblowing issue during the Vovid-19 pandemic, contact the attorneys at Lebau & Neuworth at at (410) 296-3030 or lebauneuworth.com/contact-us.
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: COVID-19 and Its Effect on Social Security Disability Cases
Lebau & Neuworth partner attorney Richard Neuworth delivered a presentation on COVID-19 and Social Security disability cases to the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives on October 30, 2020, at its national convention.
The presentation discussed how COVID-19 has actually opened new ways for claimants to obtain disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. In fact, there are several different scenarios to consider in disability cases, including:
- What are long term effects of contracting COVID-19, including complications?
- What physical conditions make individuals at high or very high risk to work outside of the home?
- Does the claimant have an underlying severe medical impairment that could place the claimant at high or very high risk if they tried to work without a vaccine?
Other important topics are how to cross examine vocational and other medical experts during the course of Administrative Law Judge hearings.
Download and see the presentation: CLICK HERE.
If you believe your Social Secuity disability has been wrongly affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, contact the attorneys at Lebau & Neuworth at at (410) 296-3030 or lebauneuworth.com/contact-us.
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: Addressing Employee Benefits as Affected by COVID-19
Specializing in employment law and employee rights, the Law Firm of Lebau & Neuworth is specifically qualified to address Employee Benefits and the manner in which they have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, Lebau & Neuworth has spent weeks and months poring over the vital subject and has recently released a presentation addressed "COVID 19 AND EMPLOYEE BENEFITS."
Partner Richard Neuworth delivered an extensive powerpoint presentation for the Maryland State Bar Association on September 30, 2020, covering federal and state laws affecting employee benefits due to COVID 19. The program was broadcast and will appear on the Maryland State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section. The topics covered included the CARES Act, Affordable Care Act, regulatory changes to COBRA and ERISA disability benefit and health insurance appeals. The state issues covered included the Maryland Mini Warn Act, the Maryland Healthy Workers Act of 2018 and Maryland Pandemic Unemployment Insurance.
Among the topics Lebau & Neuworth address in their study is "Covid 19 and Its Unprecedented Changes: Employer/Employee Relationships at The State and Federal Levels." The firm answers many key points related to this specific topic, including State of Maryland public benefits available to employees affected by COVID 19:
- Unemployment benefits;
- Sick leave benefits;
- Worker layoff benefits depending on how many employees are laid off beginning on October 1, 2020; and
- Unemployment benefits offered through the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.
Importantly, the presentation targets many issues to consider concerning employee beneftis and the pandemic, including:
- How do severance benefits affect the enhanced unemployment benefits in the State of Maryland?
- How does collecting Social Security benefits effect the enhanced unemployment benefits in the State of Maryland?
Lebau & Neuworth further explain the Maryland’s Mini WARN Act statute mandatory notice of certain plant and office closings and offices being moved to other locations, including features such as:
- Act goes into effect on October 1, 2020;
- Act is enforced by the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation; and
- No private cause of action may be brought by an employee, unlike the federal WARN statute.
And the law firm also address how the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act can be leveraged during the pandemic, addressing related topics including:
- Complaint must be filed with DLLR, and
- Applies to all employees in Maryland, including those working for state and local governments.
The exhaustive study preformed by Lebau & Neuworth covers a vast number of additional topics that are important to any employees affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and, as a result, require assitance with employee benefits. If you have been affected, contact Lebau & Neuworth immediately for a no-cost inital consulation at (410) 296-3030 or lebauneuworth.com/contact-us.
L&N Partner Provides Social Security Disability Presentation to The Federal Bar Association
Recently, Lebau and Neuworth partner Richard Neuworth gave a presentation to the Federal Bar Association on several of the latest developments concerning Social Security disability law. The well-attended session covered three topics, including the Administration’s new ethics rules governing the conduct of representatives appearing before the Administration in cases concerning disabilities and several recent Supreme Court decisions and their application to Social Security disability hearings.
The final -- and perhaps most important -- topic concerned both the evidentiary rules and approaches to cross-examining both vocational and medical experts.
The session will be re-broadcast at the end of June 2020 as Social Security Disability 101.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Lebau and Neuworth is also pursuing COVID-19-related cases as part of claims for Social Security disability cases.
For further developments concerning Social Security disability law, contact the lawyers at Lebau and Neuworth, as the law frequently changes and the advice provided during the program does not necessarily apply to all individual situations.