Thursday, May 31st, 2007

ASCHR in 2006

The Alaska State Commission for Human Rights (ASCHR) publishes an Annual Report.  The Report indicates that 2006 saw a 40% increase in cases that were closed through their mediation process.  The settlement rate for cases that went through mediation in 2006 was 78%.  The Annual Report contains a summary of cases that went through public hearing, and also […]

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Filed under Title 18

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Severance Pay is not ‘Wages and Salary’

The 9th Circuit concludes today that the “ordinary and popular” meaning of the phrase “wages and salary” is “remuneration for services.”  Here, severance pay was not sufficiently linked to services (presumably services while employed).  The Court explained:
Gilliam’s severance pay was not for services, but for her voluntary termination of employment, confidentiality, non-competition, and waiver of claims against Nevada […]

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Filed under ERISA, Severance pay