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State and federal laws require employers to pay their employees equal pay for equal work.  Although this is a long-standing legal standard, discriminatory compensation practices persist.  These practices are, in large part, enabled by policies or practices of employers prohibiting employee... Read more >

Effective January 1, 2016, all District of Columbia employers (not including the United States or DC governments) with 20 or more employees were required to provide at least one of three transportation benefit programs.  The first program gives employees a pre-tax fringe benefit— meaning t... Read more >

The Ohio Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association recognized Alan Grochal, partner and chair of the firm’s bankruptcy/creditors’ rights department with its “2015 Transaction of the Year” award for his involvement in the Hedwin Corporation Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization and Sale to... Read more >

On June 23, 2015, the Montgomery County Council (Maryland) enacted a new law entitled “Earned Sick and Safe Leave Act” (“ESSLA”), which will take effect on October 1, 2016. Under this new law, every employer with one or more employees in Montgomery County will be required to provide paid ... Read more >

On May 28, 2015, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals (“CSA”) in Len Stoler, Inc. v. Wisner, 223 Md. App. 218 (2015) ruled in favor of a Baltimore area auto dealership on a class action suit.  The case involved a claim that in violation of the Maryland Closed End Credit Grantor Law (�... Read more >

Employers with employees who are authorized to work in the United States as foreign students engaged in post-completion employment (“F1/OPT”), take note: On August 12, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated the 2008 Department of Homeland Security rule authorizing ... Read more >

Alan Grochal Best Lawyers in America has named Alan Grochal the 2016 “Lawyer of the Year” in Baltimore for his bankruptcy litigation practice.  Mr. Grochal has been named continuously to Best Lawyers list since 2009 for his bankruptcy/creditors’ rights practice.  Mr. Grochal a... Read more >

In a recent case, the Maryland Court of Appeals, Maryland’s highest court, held that an automobile dealer could rely on the terms of its buyer’s order to compel its customer to arbitrate, even if the installment sales contract (i.e. the financing instrument) did not contain its own arbitration p... Read more >

Tydings is pleased to announce that The Daily Record has named Jaime Luse to its 2015 VIP List – Very Important Professionals Successful by 40. Jaime is a partner in the firm’s litigation department and defends businesses of all sizes in commercial and employment litigation.  She ha... Read more >

The Maryland General Assembly passed an important bill about spot delivery, the practice in which an auto dealer attempts to arrange credit with a third-party lender for a finance or lease transaction and delivers a vehicle before the lender issues a final approval. The bill, which was signed int... Read more >