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Los Angeles, Calif. (September 7, 2022) - With the passage of Assembly Bill 2777 (AB 2777), also known as the Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act, by its State Senate on August 25, 2022,...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently faced the question of whether an employer can be assessed damages for the loss of an employee's life's work.

Denver, Colo. (July 28, 2023) – In this third installment of our Colorado Legislation Client Alert Series, we review amendments to Colorado's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act...

While offering reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees and applicants may seem like common sense to many employers, the new law has several, very specific requirements that employers must meet.

Employers frequently face the scenario in which a former employee who resigned or quit sues for wrongful termination in violation of public policy...

Earlier this month, Maine passed the Act to Promote Keeping Workers in Maine, banning non-compete agreements with employees who earn less than 400% of the federal poverty line ($49,960 per year for 2019).

On January 13, 2020, the DOL released its long-awaited final rule regarding joint employer status under the FLSA, under which one company can be held jointly and severally liable for another company's FLSA wage and hour violations ...

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors has issued long-awaited guidance to provide clarity and address specific recruiting activities being conducted by "collectives" and "boosters"...

(May 23, 2019) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires that private employers with over 100 employees and certain federal contractors with 50 or more employees

New Jersey (March 21, 2019) - As of March 18, 2019, New Jersey employers may not include any provision in an employment contract that waives any substantive or procedural rights ...

Such was the case here, where the employer's insurers litigated coverage for this claim over many years.

Organized labor suffered another significant setback on Wednesday, February 6, 2017, when Missouri Gov. (R) Eric Greitens signed SB19 into law...

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that a Wisconsin town did not violate a local union's First Amendment rights when it required the union to remove a giant inflatable rat staked to a public highway median.

In 2020, the Illinois Workplace Transparency Act (WTA)—a comprehensive, bipartisan overhaul of Illinois' sexual harassment and discrimination laws—took effect.

In welcome news to employers, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 13, 2024 issued a decision in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney that clarifies that the National Labor Relations...

New York, N.Y. (January 17, 2024) - Employers around the country should take note of the recent release of the long anticipated new rule adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)...

Plaintiff James Fletcher was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2015. As result, he brought suit against a number of entities alleging asbestos exposure