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On October 15, 2013, Proskauer issued an additional Client Alert providing guidance to federal contractors regarding key legal questions that have arisen as a result of the government shutdown.

The law includes rules regarding accrual rates, carryover of unused time, usage, payment (including amounts and timing), notices to employees, workplace posters, recordkeeping and retaliation.

Employers in New York and New Jersey who were wondering whether to require employees returning from the three West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea who had direct contact with a person with Ebola to stay home from work during the 21-day Ebola incubation period now do not have to make that decision.

Existing Michigan law has served to prevent private employers from considering criminal records "set aside" by law (more commonly known as expungement) in hiring and personnel decisions.

The New York Assembly passed a bill limiting the use of arbitration provisions for employment claims by businesses that contract with New York State.

As federal agencies dole out record-breaking awards to tipsters (such as the SEC's recent $30 million award), whistleblower programs remain a topic of public interest.

As we reported here, on April 1, 2020, the NLRB published its final rule making three amendments to its rules and regulations governing union elections ...

On December 18, 2015, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed an executive order establishing an "Employee Classification Section" within the state's Industrial Commission.

The New York City Council held a hearing on a bill that would effectively prohibit employers from inquiring about or using an individual’s credit history in hiring and personnel decisions.

The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ("OFCCP") recently announced that it reached a settlement with Cargill Meat Solutions ("Cargill") regarding claims of hiring discrimination based on race and gender.

Both parties have 30 days to appeal the decision to the DOL Office of Administrative Law Judges.

The Second Circuit concluded that a promissory estoppel claim by an out-of-network provider against an insurer was not completely preempted by ERISA and thus remanded the claim to state court for further proceedings.

A federal district court in Illinois held that participants in a multiemployer pension plan failed to plausibly allege that plan fiduciaries retaliated against them in violation of ERISA § 510

As previously discussed, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the "PBGC") issued final regulations in July 2022 for plans that receive special financial assistance ("SFA")...

In early August, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Richard Blumenthal introduced the "Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act" in the U.S. Senate.

The California law also requires employers to provide salary ranges upon request.

On May 8, 2019, the Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources ("PR DOL") issued its "Guidelines on the Interpretation of Puerto Rico's Employment Legislation

In a summary order issued on December 7, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that an award of liquidated damages under both the FLSA and the New York Labor Law with respect to the same violation was improper.