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Employee spends most of his workday operating the grinding mill, and storing the ground shell. When the truck of the contract carrier utilized by the chicken meal processor arrives at establishment, the employee operates automatic loading equipment to load the ground crab shell material. Section 13(b)(1)

The waiter chef brings food order to a table and cooks it on a hibachi grill in front of the customers, while entertaining customers. Waiters take food and drink orders. Tips are split 50/50 between the two.

Status and applicability of Thiram standards in Washington and Oregon. - [1910.1000]

Clinical instructor and the education coordinator, it is our opinion such employees can qualify for exemption under section 13(a)(I) as engaged in teaching and administrative duties within the meaning of the regulations.

Whether an employee benefit plan required by its plan documents to have more than 50 percent of its assets invested in qualifying employer securities, or if the plan’s fiduciary’s duties under section 404 of ERISA require fewer plan assets to be invested in employer securities, the plan will satisfy the requirement of ERISA section 407(d)(6) of ERISA  that an employee stock ownership plan must be designed to invest primarily in qualify employer securities.

Whether the prohibited transaction rules of ERISA allow the full-time international representative of an international union to be compensated for services performed as administrator of multiemployer plans negotiated by the local chapter (and member) of the same international union.

Whether the Department of Labor would (1) reconsider its Advisory Opinion 82-2A, which stated that the Truman Medical Center Retirement Plan (the Plan) was not a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of ERISA, (2) not implement that opinion until the Pension Benefit Guaranty completes its reconsideration of its determination that the Plan is not a governmental plan, and/or (3) delay the effective date of those decisions.

Method I. Employees who utilize the child care service would have deductions made from their wages to cover the cost of service. Method II. Employees whose salaries would be reduced by the amount of the child care expense, would pay for the child care service and would then receive a reimbursement from the employer. Section 3(m).

Whether the Baytown Mutual Benefit Association (MBA), established to furnish medical services to its members, and which has a clinic with doctors, a laboratory, an x-ray department and a pharmacy, is an employee welfare benefit plan as defined by section 3(1) of title I of ERISA, established or maintained by an employee organization, as defined in section 3(4) of ERISA, and whether section 514 of ERISA preempts an opinion from the office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas.

Whether the Retail Employee’s Local 919 and Contributing Employers’ Food Pension Trust (Local 919 Trust), created by collective bargaining to receive contributions from at least three employers is a multiemployer plan under section 3(37) of ERISA, as amended by the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, and Department of Labor regulation 29 CFR § 2510.3-37.