Through two unanimous decisions, the Supreme Court has made it easier for employees to avoid arbitration due to their status as "transportation workers" and to challenge job transfers as discriminatory under Title VII....more
5/7/2024
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Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Arbitration ,
Bissonnette v LePage Bakeries Park St LLC ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Documentation ,
Employee Transfers ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Arbitration Act ,
Harassment ,
Lactation Accommodation ,
LGBTQ ,
Muldrow v City of St Louis ,
Over-Time ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
SCOTUS ,
Title VII ,
Undue Hardship
After more than a year of considering tens of thousands of public comments, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has voted 3-to-2 to adopt a Final Rule (the “Rule”) that would effectively ban almost all employee non-compete...more
4/25/2024
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Employment Contract ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
FTC Act ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Disclosure Agreement ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Trade Secrets
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) on September 22, 2020, proposed a regulation that would clarify how to determine whether a worker is an “employee” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”) or...more
9/26/2020
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Classification ,
Comment Period ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Economic Realities Test ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Freelance Workers ,
Gig Economy ,
Independent Contractors ,
Misclassification ,
Popular ,
Public Comment ,
Unemployment Insurance
President Donald Trump on March 18, 2020, signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “FFCRA” or “Families First Act”) to provide economic relief to those impacted by COVID-19. This law includes key employment...more
4/15/2020
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
EFMLA ,
EPSLA ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
IRS ,
New Guidance ,
Relief Measures ,
Sick Leave ,
Sick Pay ,
Tax Credits