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Penalties Enforcement Employer Liability Issues

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Data Security, Commercial Email and Employee Reviews Walk into a Bar...

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Sorry folks, there is no punchline here, but there are bottom lines from a settlement the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced last week. We discuss three today: (1) the FTC continues to mount broad investigations and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

PAGA Reimagined: A New Chapter for California’s Employers and Employees

On June 18, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas announced a tentative deal to reform a number of aspects of California’s Private Attorneys...more

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Illinois Joins the Growing List of States With New Pay Transparency Laws

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Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law HB 3129, an amendment to the Illinois Equal Pay Act that changes how employers can advertise for position openings in Illinois, on August 11, 2023. The amendment goes into effect January...more

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New York City Adopts Final Rules for Law Governing Automated Employment Decision Tools

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The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) adopted final rules for Local Law 144 on April 6, 2023. This landmark law prohibits employers from using automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) to...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

OSHA Enforcement Guidance Could Subject Employers to More Citations

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) can now issue separate citations for each instance of an alleged high-gravity serious violation. OSHA is also encouraged to issue multiple violations instead of...more

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Washington, D.C., Ban on Non-Competes Postponed Until October 2022

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Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the District of Columbia’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020 (D.C. Act 23-563) (the Act) on January 11, 2021. The Act includes one of the most expansive bans on non-compete...more

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Minneapolis Wage Theft Ordinance to Go Into Effect on January 1, 2020

Joining a chorus of cities and states addressing concerns involving employers’ failure to properly calculate employees’ pay, or to pay them at all, allowing employees to work “off the clock,” or take unauthorized or illegal...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Trojan Horse In The 2015 Budget Agreement: OSHA Can (And Undoubtedly Will) Raise Penalties By 82 Percent

Wow! How did this happen? Buried in the fine print of the recent budget agreement between Congress and the White House, and seemingly slipped in at the last minute with no one claiming responsibility for the change, the...more

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