Seyfarth Synopsis: Just before the end of the legislative session, lawmakers in New York introduced the “Dependent Worker Act,” which proposes to provide workers in the gig economy with certain rights, including the right to...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The NLRB’s Division of Advice recently released an Advice Memorandum finding that a security company’s work rules were unlawfully overbroad, but that the company did not violate the National Labor Relations...more
5/1/2019
/ Defamation ,
Employee Rights ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Facebook ,
Former Employee ,
Hiring & Firing ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Wage and Hour
Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 22, 2019, in Maderazo v. VHS San Antonio Partners, L.P., C.A. No. 06-CV-535, a case alleging that hospitals in San Antonio conspired to suppress nurses’ wages that had been pending for nearly 13...more
1/30/2019
/ Antitrust Litigation ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Conspiracies ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Healthcare ,
Nurses ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage-Fixing ,
Wages
Seyfarth Synopsis: At the recent American Bar Association’s Antitrust in Healthcare conference, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) reportedly advised that it has open criminal investigations into agreements among healthcare...more
6/1/2018
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Healthcare ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Information Sharing ,
No-Poaching ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage-Fixing
Seyfarth Synopsis: NLRB rules that fast-food company violated the National Labor Relations Act by maintaining a rule prohibiting employees from wearing unauthorized buttons or insignia and by instructing an employee to remove...more
4/5/2017
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Fast-Food Industry ,
In-N-Out ,
Minimum Wage ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Uniforms ,
Union Insignia ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour