Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may be liable for sexual harassment by a supervisor with authority over the victimized employee.

Employers can try various initiatives to get employees to take their holidays.

A recent $22.4 million tentative settlement entered into by three California grocery chains and 2,100 illegal alien contract janitors is another example of the success plaintiffs are having with the record number of Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective actions being filed against employers.

The U.S. Senate passed two amendments to Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) Jumpstart Our Business Strength bill late in the afternoon on May 4, 2004.

On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a revised Executive Order banning entry into the United States for people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen for 90 days.

This interpretation permitted patent owners to sue domestic corporations for patent infringement in practically any jurisdiction in which the defendant sold products or offered services.

As if employers were not already sufficiently concerned about potential back pay exposure posed by wage and hour lawsuits...

The United States Supreme Court in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., held that patent owner's decision to sell a product exhausts all of its patent rights in that item, ...

In another important decision for employers who jointly employ temporary workers provided by a personnel staffing agency, a 3-2 Board majority has held that the employer and agency must both consent before an election can be conducted in a unit comprising the employer’s regular employees and any jointly employed temps.

The United States Supreme Court in SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC eliminated the equitable defense of laches for many patent infringement cases.

The New York City Council recently approved legislation that prohibits employers from inquiring about a job applicant's salary history.

The "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003" (the "CAN-SPAM Act") became effective on January 1, 2004 and imposes federal requirements on all "commercial" e-mails, regardless of the sending entity and regardless of whether the e-mail was solicited.