The petitioner-plaintiffs are two among approximately 90,000 PSRs employed within the American pharmaceutical industry who visit physicians' offices and encourage physicians to prescribe their employer's products to their patients
NELA Amicus_020612.pdf
As a pharmaceutical sales representative, Stephenson was required to meet with approximately eight to ten physicians per day to sell them Pfizer products, which meant that she spent up to ninety percent of her time traveling between various physicians' offices in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina area
NELA et al. Amicus Brief_Stephenson v. Pfizer.pdf
As a pharmaceutical sales representative, Stephenson was required to meet with approximately eight to ten physicians per day to sell them Pfizer products, which meant that she spent up to ninety percent of her time traveling between various physicians’ offices in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina area
The petitioner-plaintiffs are two among approximately 90,000 PSRs employed within the American pharmaceutical industry who visit physicians’ offices and encourage physicians to prescribe their employer’s products to their patients
The case concerns whether the Federal Arbitration Act’s (FAA) exemption of “contracts of employment” from its coverage applies to clauses purporting to treat workers as independent contractors, and whether the resolution of that question may properly be delegated to an arbitrator
New Prime v. Oliveira_NELP NELA Amicus Brief_072518.pdf
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The Court pointed out that Title VII does not “limit disparate-treatment claims to only those employer policies that treat religious practices less favorably than similar secular practices.”
However, the fact that certain types of cases are difficult does not mean that they should be treated with less care by the court
The attendees, who crowded into a conference room at the offices of Lieff Cabraser Hiemann & Bernstein in San Francisco, were treated to an informative and timely discussion of the current state of forced arbitration in employment cases
Third, SPHS and Advocate have undermined participants' retirement security by treating its pension plan as an exempt church plan
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For one thing, such a finding does not treat an arbitration agreement less favorably than any other contract that conflicts with federal law
Third, SPHS and Advocate have undermined participants’ retirement security by treating its pension plan as an exempt church plan
And NELA’s vision aspires to a future in which all workers are treated with dignity and respect; workplaces are equitable, diverse, and inclusive; and the well-being of workers is a priority in business practices
Before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Lockheed Martin, Corp. v. Department of Labor & Andrea Brown (Case No. 11-9542), NELA filed an amicus brief on September 7, 2011, focused on two issues of law: 1) whether mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, securities fraud, or...
NELAAmicus_Lockheed v DOL & Brown_09 07 11.pdf