California Employment News: Top Developments in Wage and Hour Law for 2024 (Podcast)
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Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 395: Listen and Learn -- Evidence: Special Privileges
The Labor Law Insider: Non-Disclosure and Non-Disparagement Agreements under Fire: A New Board Decision and a New General Counsel Memorandum, Part II
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Employment Law Now VII-127-Interview with NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo on Invalidating Severance Agreement Provisions
Chambliss Update – NLRB Decision Alters Landscape for Employee Severance Agreements
DE Under 3: New NLRB Decision Prohibits Virtually All Employment Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Clauses, Nationwide
#WorkforceWednesday: Spilling Secrets: Employers - Train on Trade Secrets - Employment Law This Week®
What Can Squid Game Teach Us About Confidentiality Agreements and Restrictive Covenants? - Hiring to Firing Podcast
California Employment News: The Erosion of Confidentiality Clauses in Settlement Agreements
#WorkforceWednesday: NLRB Outlook, NY Whistleblower Protections Take Effect, DOJ to Focus on Cyber-Fraud - Employment Law This Week®
Monthly Minute | Trade Secret Protection Best Practices–Employment and Confidentiality Agreements
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#WorkforceWednesday: Sick Leave in New York, California Law Update, and Oregon’s Workplace Fairness Act Takes Effect
Developments in New York State Labor and Employment Law – What You Need to Know in 2020
Non-Competes Are Not So Bad! The Current Law and Why Proposed Legislation in Congress is an Overreaction
Nota Bene Episode 37: How to Prevent or Defend Against Business Crimes with Chuck Kreindler
III-41- Things That Make You Go “Hmmm” in Employment Law
II-35- The New Sexual Harassment Training/Policy Requirements in New York State and New York City
The CFPB warned on July 24, 2024, that confidentiality agreements that employees of a company are required to sign likely violate federal law if those agreements imply that employees could face retaliation from their...more
On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 to publish a final rule with sweeping effect, purporting to bar prospectively and invalidate retroactively most employee noncompete agreements....more
Late last month, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) hosted a panel on Trade Secret Protection in Life Sciences: Strategies for Success. In today's rapidly evolving business environment, trade secrets are becoming...more
Utah joins the growing list of states, including California, New Jersey and New York, enacting their own #MeToo-inspired laws prohibiting confidentiality clauses regarding sexual misconduct. The #MeToo movement seeks to limit...more
Employers should check their confidentiality and severance agreements for a common oversight that, for some, is becoming a costly error. Recent enforcement activity by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Rule...more
Introduction - As we enter a new era of business landscape dynamics, Seyfarth Shaw is pleased to present the latest edition of our annual cornerstone publication. This comprehensive 50-State Non-Compete Desktop Reference,...more
We recently wrote about the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB” or “Board”) decision in McLaren Macomb (the “decision”) which reversed several Trump-era rulings that largely had allowed employers to proffer severance...more
The Board sent shockwaves through employment law in its February 21, 2023, decision in McLaren Macomb, which held that simply offering a draft settlement agreement with broad confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions...more
Key Points - On February 21, 2023, the NLRB issued a decision in McLaren Macomb holding that employers may not offer severance agreements with broad confidentiality or non-disparagement clauses to union and non-union...more
A pendulum-swinging decision from the National Labor Relations Board yesterday means that severance agreements – in both unionized and non-union workplaces – could once again be deemed unlawful if they could be construed to...more
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently made two rulings that may impact companies using liquidated-damages clauses in their confidentiality agreements to protect their trade secrets....more
Congress just passed a law Wednesday that will prevent employers from forcing victims of sexual harassment and assault to remain quiet in response to alleged abuse, requiring some businesses to alter their business practices...more
It is ideal for a business to employ policies and strategies to own intellectual property, not merely to receive an assignment or license thereto. One tool for doing so is to ensure that copyrightable works are created under...more
The SEC brought an enforcement action against The Brink’s Company for using confidentiality agreements that the SEC alleged violated Exchange Act Rule 21F-17. That rule prohibits any person from taking any action to impede an...more
On April 1, 2022, the Alaska Supreme Court issued Borer v. The Eyak Corporation, which may impact Alaska Native Corporation boards of directors and their corporate governance structures and policies. Courts only resolve...more
As foreshadowed by the NLRB General Counsel’s August 2021 Advice Memorandum, the vacillating standard for the legality of employer handbooks and policies and confidentiality requirements during open employer-investigations...more
Last week, the Federal Circuit issued a decision holding that parties can contractually bargain away their rights to file petitions for Inter Partes Review (“IPR”) at the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“the Board”). This...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law the “Silenced No More Act” (SB 331 or the “Act”), which expands limitations on confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements for filed claims, previously...more
One of the most common forms of business agreements that our clients enter into is the non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Whether to explore a potential partnership between two companies, to consider a proposed merger or...more
Confidential arbitration agreements between employers and their employees are commonplace. Employers favor such agreements for many reasons, including preserving privacy and allowing legitimate claims to be either settled or...more
In another strike against restrictive covenants in employment contracts, Judge Paul G. Gardephe of the Southern District of New York ruled in Jessica Denson v. Donald J. Trump For President, Inc. that the non-disclosure and...more
Our antitrust practice is pleased to present a new report addressing the prevalence of risk-shifting provisions in merger agreements. As antitrust agencies continue to galvanize enforcement efforts, such provisions have...more
A thorny question which can arise on the termination of an individual’s employment relates to the individual’s ongoing duty of confidentiality to his or her former employer. A recent case brought by Trailfinders (a well-known...more
Applying the facially neutral work rule test laid out in Boeing, the Board recently reversed an Administrative Law Judge decision, concluding that the employer maintained lawful workplace rules restricting employee use of (i)...more
(Not a political endorsement.) As you know, this blog is non-partisan, even if it kills us. But I couldn't help feeling sorry for Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday night when his fellow Democratic presidential candidates piled...more