ArticleImplementation Deadline Of The Right To DisconnectEmployers with 20 or more employees are obliged to introduce a policy on the right to disconnect on company level.LuxembourgEmployment and HRLoyens & Loeff
ArticleDepartment Of Labor Affirms That FMLA Runs Concurrently With Paid LeaveOn September 10, 2019, the Department of Labor (DOL) released a Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Opinion Letter, FMLA2019-3-AUnited StatesEmployment and HRFord Harrison LLP
Article2024 Canadian In-House Counsel Report: Unparalleled Insights Into Canada's In-House Profession From CCCA | MondaqThe CCCA, the leader and voice for Canadian in-house counsel, and Mondaq, a leading global provider of AI-enabled content marketing, analytics and data solutions for professional services firms, conducted an expansive survey of Canadian in-house counsel lawyers in late 2023. CanadaLaw Practice ManagementCBA In-House Lawyers
Article2023 Canadian In-House Counsel Report: Unparalleled Insights into Canada's In-House Profession from CCCA | MondaqThe CCCA and Mondaq conducted an expansive survey of Canadian in-house counsel lawyers in late 2022.CanadaStrategyCBA In-House Lawyers
ArticleOpen For Business? An Overview Of Open Banking In CanadaThe concept of open banking is emerging internationally as the potential future of the banking industry, and this trend is beginning to gain traction in Canada as wellCanadaFinance and BankingMcMillan LLP
ArticleWill Your Zero-Tolerance Policy Go Up In Smoke?In 2013, Illinois became the 21st state to adopt a medical marijuana law, the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program (MCPP). United StatesEmployment and HRFox Rothschild LLP
ArticleBiometric Data Privacy Act Class Action Dismissed For Lack Of Actual InjuryA federal district court in the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a putative class action alleging violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act ...United StatesPrivacyFenwick
ArticleUnpaid Employer Contributions As Plan Assets: Expansion Of Liability Under ERISAERISA, as amended, requires trustees of multiemployer pension and benefit funds to collect contributions made by employers.United StatesEmployment and HRProskauer Rose LLP
ArticleReproductive Healthcare Issues For Employers Series, Part 5: Collective Bargaining Implications Of The U.S. Supreme Court Decision In DobbsOn June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court released Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. In our Reproductive Healthcare Issues for Employers series...United StatesEmployment and HRDickinson Wright PLLC
ArticleBlockchain Bites: ASIC sets a positive trajectory for an Australian Bitcoin ETF; CBA creates crypto capabilities for customers; FinTech job demand up 615% from August 2020; US Presidents working group on stablecoins; Seoul Local Council adopts public service MetaverseThis issue of Blockchain Bites brings you the latest legal, regulatory and project updates in blockchain and digital law.AustraliaTechnologyPiper Alderman
ArticleNew York Enacts Paid Vaccination Leave LawOn March 12, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation providing all public and private employees in New York up to four hours of paid leave per vaccine injection to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine.United StatesEmployment and HRLittler Mendelson
ArticleNew Information And Consultation Obligation For A Transfer Of UndertakingThe employer and employee organisations in the National Labour Council have added a new chapter to the well-known CBA 32bis on the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event...BelgiumEmployment and HRALTIUS
ArticleOrdinary Contract Principles Govern Disputes About Collectively Bargained Retiree Medical BenefitsA Morgan Lewis team secured a major victory for employers when the U.S. Supreme Court, in M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett, unanimously rejected a decades-old precedent. United StatesEmployment and HRMorgan Lewis
ArticleRevised Regulations Issued For New York Paid Family Leave LawOn May 25, 2017, the Workers' Compensation Board, incorporating comments from Seyfarth Shaw LLP and other industry groups, proposed another set of revised regulations for New York's Paid Family Leave Law.United StatesEmployment and HRSeyfarth Shaw LLP
ArticleUS- Mexico-Canada-AgreementThe [rude] awakening of collective rights for Mexican workers, and what that means for employers.MexicoInternational LawDiaz Miron Y Asociados, S.C.
ArticleDouble-Breasted Company Owners, Officers Can Be Indicted For Underpaying Benefit ContributionsA federal district court in Massachusetts has held that the shareholders and officers of a double-breasted construction company can be indicted and could go to prison for fraudulently misrepresenting their business...United StatesEmployment and HRHolland & Knight
ArticleWashington State And Seattle Paid Sick And Safe Leave UpdatesThe first quarter of 2024 has brought multiple updates to the State of Washington's and the City of Seattle's respective paid sick leave laws, addressing concerns for commercial...United StatesEmployment and HROgletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
ArticleMandating COVID-19 Vaccination Among A Union WorkforceMany employers are weighing the pros and cons of mandating that their employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of continued employment.United StatesEmployment and HRDickinson Wright PLLC
ArticleHostess Court Authorizes Rejection Of Bakers’ Union Collective Bargaining AgreementsLast month the drama surrounding Hostess’s efforts to reject various collective bargaining agreements drew to a close (pending appeal). United StatesInsolvency/Bankruptcy/Re-StructuringHogan Lovells Cadwalader
ArticleFirst Circuit Enforces Arbitration of ERISA DisputeThe First Circuit concluded that, pursuant to the applicable collective bargaining agreement, it was for an arbitrator, not the court, to decide whether the union's claim that the employer failed to properly fund a defined benefit pension plan was preempted by ERISA. United StatesEmployment and HRProskauer Rose LLP