On June 29, 2017 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it would permit all companies registering for an initial public offering to take advantage of the confidential review process...

There are many ways to run afoul of labor laws and spook your investors—one of the most common for startups is "creative" pay practices. In this video, Fenwick employment

On July 2, the Treasury Department issued a press release announcing that implementation of the "pay or play" rules, or employer shared responsibility rules, of the Affordable Care Act (the "Act") would be delayed for one year.

Companies should revisit their commuter benefit plan offerings to ensure compliance with this new program.

DirecTV moved to compel arbitration based on the arbitration agreement that Marenco executed with 180 Connect.

Following unanimous passage by the California State Senate (38-0), the California Fair Pay Act—considered to be the toughest equal pay law in the country—will be voted on shortly by the California State Assembly.

In a case of first impression, a California court of appeal ruled that employers may round nonexempt employee time to the nearest one-tenth of an hour for purposes of calculating overtime pay.

In Angelica Textile Services, Inc. v. Park, a California court of appeal considered the issue whether Angelica’s common-law claims for breach of contract, unfair competition, and interference with business relations would be allowed to proceed against a former employee despite the absence of any trade-secret violation

After a former Best Buy employee filed a putative class action alleging misclassification of store managers as exempt, his attorney collected contact information for all putative class members...

In a U.S. Department of Labor administrator interpretation dated July 15, 2015, the DOL emphasized that worker misclassification is a growing problem among employers and will receive greater scrutiny from the DOL.

The federal Department of Labor ("DOL") released a proposed rule to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act's white-collar employee exemptions and the highly compensated employee exemption.

After sending 1,330 e-mails to employees of Case New Holland, Inc. and its affiliates in an alleged effort to solicit plaintiffs to commence a class action lawsuit, the federal EEOC found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit.

In Ridout v. JBS USA, LLC, Lyle Ridout was discharged as superintendent at a pork processing plant in Iowa after an incident arising out of an equipment failure.

The arbitration agreement in Capili contained several substantially unconscionable provisions—including a forum selection clause that designated Indiana as the forum for disputes for California employees...

A California Court of Appeal held that an employer’s attempt to shorten the one year statute of limitations was against public policy and unenforceable.

In Bosley v. Cargill Meat Solutions, Tanya Bosley worked for Cargill for several years.

In "Wood v. SatCom Marketing", Wood worked as a Human Resources assistant to the head of HR.

Employers should review their applicable policies and training practices for compliance with new California Fair Employment and Housing Act regulations that went into effect this year.

Under amendments to the Unemployment Insurance Integrity Act of 2011 that took effect in late October, employers must now timely and adequately respond to a state unemployment agency's information request about an employee's initial insurance claim.

Joining San Francisco and other jurisdictions, the New York City Council recently passed legislation restricting when employers may inquire into applicants' criminal histories...