WHEN: May 23, 2018 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. WHERE: Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel 375 South Moorland Road Brookfield, WI Registration and a continental breakfast will be served beginning at 7:30 a.m. Click here to register. This COMPLIMENTARY half-day event will address the latest labor and employment topics impacting employers including: Legal Updates – Labor, Employment and Worker’s Compensation In Search […]
Lindner & Marsack’s worker’s compensation defense practice is well recognized as an industry leader in providing work injury defense services to many of Wisconsin’s largest employers and insurance carriers. Doug Feldman heads the Firm’s highly regarded work injury defense team and is a founding Board Member and current President of Kids’ Chance of Wisconsin. Kids’ […]
By: Daniel Pedriana, Joseph Birdsall and Claudia Harke On January 9, 2018, District III of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals decided that Wis. Stat. § 102.29(6)(b)1 allows an injured temporary employee to choose between filing a worker’s compensation claim and suing the temporary employer for tort damages. In Rivera v. West Bend Mutual, Carlos Rivera […]
By Oyvind Wistrom The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on Friday in the case of The Manitowoc Company, Inc. v. John Lanning, 2018 WI 6. The case represented the Court’s first opportunity to determine whether a Non-Solicitation of Employee (NSE) provision in a contract between an employer and an employee is governed by […]
Lindner & Marsack, S.C., one of the region’s most respected and long-standing management-side labor and employment law firms, announced today the advancement of Sally Piefer to Equity Partner. Piefer, who joined Lindner & Marsack in 2016, specializes broadly in all areas of employment law matters with special emphasis in employment litigation, employment counseling and compliance […]
By: Kristofor Hanson As has been anticipated since the change in presidential administrations earlier this year, the National Labor Relations Board, with a Republican majority, issued a slew of impactful and employer-friendly decisions in recent days. (The Republican majority on the Board was in place until December 16, 2017, when Chairman Philip Miscimarra’s term ended. […]
Lindner & Marsack, S.C., one of the region’s most respected and long-standing management, labor, and employment firms, today announced seven attorneys acknowledged by Super Lawyer magazine. Honorees include Douglas M. Feldman, Daniel J. Finerty, Thomas W. Mackenzie, Gary A. Marsack, Chelsie D. Springstead, Jonathan T. Swain and Oyvind Wistrom. Finerty, Mackenzie, Marsack and Swain were […]
By: Thomas W. Mackenzie and Kristofor L. Hanson In a decision issued September 19, 2017, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld as constitutional Wisconsin’s so-called “Right to Work” law (Act 1), which outlawed mandatory union membership as a condition of employment. Prior to the law becoming effective on March 11, 2015, the International Association of […]
By Laurie A. Petersen On August 31, a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the controversial high salary threshold hikes that the Department of Labor under President Obama set for overtime exemptions putting to rest employer concerns about their obligations when or if the Rule was ever implemented. The Rule […]
By: Samantha J. Wood On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) withdrew its 2015 and 2016 informal guidance letters regarding independent contractors and joint employment, which had been issued by the prior administration. The DOL’s first guidance letter, which was issued in July 2015 and reiterated the DOL’s focus on misclassification […]