By Adam D. Schmaelzle, Esq.   What if your marriage came with the same security as your new car, with its 10-year/100,000 mile warranty?   Marriage is defined as the legal union of a couple as spouses. There are three basic elements: (1) the parties legal ability to marry each other, (2) mutual consent of [...]

By Christopher Ray   From the American employee's perspective, the state of our wage and hour laws is grim and getting worse all the time. Earlier this week, Martha Neil, of the American Bar Association Journal, joined a growing outcry over seemingly pandemic levels of wage and hour violations by American businesses. (See link below). [...]

By Robert A. Linch   In the recent ruling US v. Quality Stores, Inc., the Supreme Court declared that severance packages paid to employees are subject to the FICA tax (a 15.3% tax imposed on all income, paid in equal parts by employers and employees, that funds Social Security and Medicare). While severance packages (or supplemental [...]