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Almost 2 years after the Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act ("the Act") was passed, the Act – with significant amendments – will become effective and applicable...

Prior to the enactment of the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, mass transit commuters were only able to contribute a maximum of $130 per month on a pre-tax basis toward their transit expenses.

On February 11, 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") announced a delay until January 1, 2012 in the applicability date of the new disclosure rules imposed under interim final regulations (the "Interim Final Regulations") it published last year under Section 408(b)(2) of the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA").

It came as no surprise to most labor practitioners this week that the Supreme Court granted certiorari to review the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's decision in NLRB v. Noel Canning, No. 12-1281.

Doe v. Department of Corr. & Rehab., 2019 WL 6907515 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019)

A federal district court in Mississippi ruled for the first time that the "more harm than good" pleading standard established by the Supreme Court in Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, 134 S. Ct. 2459 (2014), applied to employer "stock drop" claims brought against the fiduciaries of plans sponsored by closely-held corporations.

The Southern District of Indiana held that plan fiduciaries were under no duty to investigate allegations that a false sale had been included in their records.

In Su v. Fensler, No. 22-cv-01030, 2023 WL 5152640 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 10, 2023), the court granted the Department of Labor's motion for a preliminary injunction to replace with an independent...

Earlier this week, D.C.’s Mayor signed two new measures amending the D.C. Human Rights Act.

On April 19, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey granted the defendant-employer's motion to dismiss a complaint seeking court enforcement of a preliminary reinstatement order after determining that the court lacked jurisdiction to enforce such orders.

This week the Department of Labor defended its rule requiring federal contractors to post notices informing employees of their right to unionize.

The revised regulations provide that the companionship exemption is not available to home care workers employed by a third-party company.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued two new opinion letters on January 8, 2021, bringing the number of "lame duck" wage and hour opinion letters—issued since...

On November 28, 2016, Judge Crabtree in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas ruled in favor of the U.S. Department of Labor and denied the motion for a preliminary injunction filed by the Market Synergy Group, Inc.,

The DOL proposes that the Court of Appeals require the plaintiffs to respond to the motion by December 6, and that the Court issue a ruling on the motion by December 8.

Workers' rights groups are advocating for a May 31 deadline.

As previously reported, in February 2016 the EEOC proposed revising its EEO-1 report to require employers to provide certain wage and hour data regarding their employees to the EEOC on an annual basis.

As employers are well aware, the pay and hours worked data component of the EEO-1 is, due to a court ruling, now in effect, and employers have until September 30 to submit 2017 and 2018 Component 2 data to the EEOC.