The Supreme Court resolved a circuit split on February 8, 2024, when it issued its opinion in Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, holding that a whistleblower need not prove that the employer acted with “retaliatory intent” in...more
2/14/2024
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Murray v UBS Securities LLC ,
Retaliation ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
SCOTUS ,
Securities Fraud ,
Securities Violations ,
UBS ,
Whistleblower Awards ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed a new whistleblower law that significantly increases the risk and cost of whistleblower claims for domestic and overseas financial services institutions that must be cognizant of...more
New York has historically been known as a bedrock of employment-at-will. Its legislature and courts were long resistant to permitting exceptions to this doctrine, such as by recognizing public policy “wrongful dismissal”...more
In a late-August decision with potentially far-reaching implications for foreign and multinational employers, the United States Department of Labor Administrative Review Board (ARB) held that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's (SOX)...more
9/15/2017
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Administrative Review Board ,
Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cross-Border ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
Multinationals ,
OSHA ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
Keeping its promise announced last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 1, 2015, released a cease-and-desist order ("Order") declaring illegal a publicly traded company's use of a confidentiality agreement...more
United States employers operating in France often face a dilemma. While they may be bound by the whistleblowing requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX") and its Dodd-Frank amendments,1 they also are bound by the data...more
President Obama's re-election, a newly active NLRB, and important decisions pending before the Supreme Court promise to make 2013 an interesting year in labor and employment law – domestically and internationally. Here is a...more
1/24/2013
/ Affirmative Action ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Cloud Computing ,
Costco ,
D.R. Horton ,
D.R. Horton v NLRB ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Harassment ,
Hostile Environment ,
Mandatory Arbitration Clauses ,
Misclassification ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Social Media ,
Social Media Policy ,
Supervisors ,
Vance v. Ball State University ,
Whistleblowers