Virtually every provision of the California Labor Code is being scrutinized by employees and their counsel these days, and Section 233, which permits employees to use a portion of their accrued sick leave to care for ill relatives, is no exception.

A recent Administrative Law Judge ruling in Starbucks Corp.sets up a possibility for the National Labor Relations Board to reinstate...

As the COVID-19 public health crisis continues to unfold around the globe, antitrust considerations remain important for businesses evaluating strategic options and reacting...

Executive Summary: Minneapolis public school teachers of color will have additional job protections this upcoming school year under a new contract allowing them to keep their...

Last week, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued Opinion Letter FLSA2026-11, addressing a question many employers with large or sprawling worksites have faced: does mandatory walk time to a designated break area turn an unpaid meal period into compensable work time? The short answer is no — so long as the remaining break time is still long enough for employees to eat a regular meal.

In a work session held on April 3, 2019, the Labor & Social Welfare Commission of Mexico's House of Representatives issued the last draft of the decree to reform the Federal Labor Law (the "Law").

Leo Barry’s case against Australian betting company, TabCorp, for the use of his image in promotional material, highlights the need for sporting organisations to consider what images can be used without obtaining further player consent when signing commercial agreements.

Nomination News. With control of the U.S. Senate in 2023 up for grabs, the Biden administration continues its push to fill agency leadership positions.

Greece is one of the most popular destinations for claiming second residency and citizenship rights.

The New York City Earned Sick Time Act (the "Act") will take effect on April 1, 2014.

By way of update to our previous alert, the Newark Paid Sick Leave Ordinance goes into effect on June 21, 2014 (the original May 29, 2014, effective date was revised to reflect the late release of the poster – see below).

CMS has adopted a number of changes to its Medicare durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) policies for 2017...

On May 19, 2020, Long Beach, California enacted a law requiring supplemental paid sick leave for COVID-19 purposes.

The NLRB's "contract coverage" standard for determining whether a collective bargaining agreement privileges an employer to unilaterally change terms and conditions of employment received support last week from a...

The recent bankruptcy case of Hostess has centered on Hostess’s attempts to reject collective bargaining agreements with its unions.

On 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.

The [rude] awakening of collective rights for Mexican workers, and what that means for employers.

A 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...

The 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.

Until just last year, it was common for public sector collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) to require employees who elected not to belong to a union