Joseph E Vaughan And Thomas R Bond

August 26, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

In our first article, we discussed the growing trend of the misclassification of employees as independent contractors. The U.S. Department of Labor has recognized this trend as one of the most serious problems facing affected workers, employers and the entire economy. The Department of Labor points out—on its website—that the employment relationship between workers and the businesses receiving the benefit of their labor has fissured apart as companies have contracted out, or otherwise shared activities to be performed by other businesses.

By Joseph E. Vaughan 
and Thomas R. Bond

18 minute read

July 21, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Department of Labor has recognized the misclassification of employees as independent contractors as one of the most serious problems facing affected workers, employers and the entire economy.

By Joseph E. Vaughan 
and Thomas R. Bond

17 minute read

November 10, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Significant changes to the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act occurred with the passage of Act 57 in 1996, creating the impairment rating evaluation, or IRE, which an employer may utilize to convert the status of a claimant's benefits from total to partial disability should the IRE result in a "whole body impairment" of less than 50 percent, according to the most recent edition of the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment.

By Joseph E. Vaughan and Thomas R. Bond

8 minute read

November 10, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Significant changes to the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act occurred with the passage of Act 57 in 1996, creating the impairment rating evaluation, or IRE, which an employer may utilize to convert the status of a claimant's benefits from total to partial disability should the IRE result in a "whole body impairment" of less than 50 percent, according to the most recent edition of the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment.

By Joseph E. Vaughan and Thomas R. Bond

8 minute read