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• Review Your Deferred Compensation Plans to Avoid Penalty Taxation ( November 2004 )
  Evelyn A. Haralampu of Burns & Levinson LLP

  Tucked away in the voluminous American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, which was signed into law on October 22, 2004, is a provision changing the taxation of nonqualified deferred compensation. Nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements allow employees to defer the payment and income taxation of certain compensation. If the requirements of the new law are not satisfied, however, the deferred compensation is includable in the participant's taxable income before it is paid.

• New California Employment Laws effective January 1, 2004 ( March 2004 )
  Bingham McCutchen LLP

  The California legislature and Governor Davis were very active this recall election year in passing legislation that increased the cost of employers’ doing business in California by establishing new employee rights and levying penalties on employers. The most notable new enactment creates a private attorney general statute that will encourage employees to sue to recover civil fines and penalties for wage and hour violations.

• The Private Attorneys General Act Of 2004: One Of California's Newest Laws Threatens To Flood Employers With Class Action Lawsuits When An Ounce Of Prevention Could Avoid Them ( October 2003 )
  Douglas A. Wickham of Littler Mendelson, P.C.

  Effective January 1, 2004, the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 will enable California employees to bring class action lawsuits seeking substantial penalties from their employers for any violation of the California Labor Code.

• Terminated California Governor Designates Employees As Private Attorneys General ( October 2003 )
  Stuart W. Miller and Emilio G. Gonzalez of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

  Outgoing Governor Gray Davis has signed the "Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004" (Senate Bill 796). The Act authorizes aggrieved employees to file lawsuits against employers who violate any provision of the voluminous California Labor Code, excluding matters governed by the workers' compensation system, and to recover attorneys' fees and receive a quarter of the civil penalties.

• The New Jersey Workers' Compensation Fraud Act ( December 1999 )
  Capehart & Scatchard, P.A.

  On August 14, 1998, Governor Whitman signed into law this state's first bill specifically addressing the issue of .

• Dramatic Changes--Workers' Compensation Hearing Process ( January 1999 )
  Robert S. Stockton of Stockton, Barker & Mead, LLP

  On Thursday, January 21, 1999, the Albany District initiated sweeping changes in the Hearing Process.

• New Law Expands H-1B Professional Worker Visa Program ( December 1998 )
  Duff, White & Turner, LLC

  On October 21, 1998, President Clinton signed legislation substantially increasing the number of H-1B vis.