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NLRB’s New Joint-Employer Rule: What It Means for Retailers and Other User Employers

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The National Labor Relations Board’s new Final Rule for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act expands the current standard by allowing the Board to find joint-employer status if an entity...more

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PEOs–The European Perspective

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Professional employer organizations (PEOs) are third-party organizations engaged by companies, usually domiciled in one country, to directly employ individuals based in another country. Such arrangements are being...more

Frantz Ward LLP

Unlocking the Handcuffs: Department of Justice Obtains Guilty Plea in “No-Poach” Hiring Agreement Case

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The Department of Justice has claimed its first victory in attacking “no-poach” agreements after a Nevada staffing company pled guilty and was sentenced to pay $134,000.  The case arose out of a concerted effort by the...more

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Ninth Circuit Indicates Restrictive Covenants in Collaborative Business-to-Business Agreements Can Escape Per Se Liability

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Few experts in the field of unfair competition law would disagree that the 2018 decision in AMN Healthcare, Inc. v. Aya Healthcare Services, Inc., was a game changer in California, overturning what was then approximately 30...more

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5 Things You Need To Know About The Labor Board’s New Joint Employment Rule

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The National Labor Relations Board just published a final rule that will soon fundamentally alter the definition of joint employment, making it more difficult for businesses to be held legally responsible for alleged labor...more

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Contractual Employee Non-solicitation Provisions Under Attack: Employer Loses Battle in Case Involving Unique Facts

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California’s prohibition against contracts that restrain a person’s ability to engage in a lawful business, profession, or trade is well-established and well-known. Ten years ago, in Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP (2008) 44...more

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Non-Compete News: Is a Non-Solicitation of Employees Provision Enforceable in California?

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Last month, California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal issued AMN Healthcare, Inc. v. Aya Healthcare Servs., Inc., 28 Cal. App. 5th 923 (Cal. Ct. App. 2018), a decision calling into question the validity of non-solicitation...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

California Appellate Panel Affirms Injunction Blocking Use Of Employee Non-Solicitation Provision In Dispute Between Travel Nurse...

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On November 1, 2018, the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District affirmed a trial court’s ruling in AMN Healthcare, Inc. v. Aya Healthcare Services, Inc. et al., Case No. D071924, Cal. App (2018) which (1)...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Illinois Restrictive Covenants: July 2016 Update

Heads up, Illinois employers with post-employment restrictive covenants: three new cases may impact your enforcement efforts. One continues the split between state and federal courts as to whether continued employment is...more

Morris James LLP

Court Of Chancery Decides If Arbitration Required When Arbitration Clause Not In One Of Two Contracts

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When only one of two related contracts has an arbitration clause, the Court can still require arbitration of a dispute under the contract lacking that clause. The question is whether the two contracts deal with the same...more

Baker Donelson

Not Just A Union Issue: NLRB Decision Changing the Test For Joint Employer Status Affects Non-Union Employers, Too

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As the National Labor Relations Board (the "Board"), traditionally the arbiter of all issues involving labor and unions, continues to broaden its reach into the world of non-union employers, it has begun to dismantle...more

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Yours, Mine, or Ours? Avoiding Joint Employer and Contractor Misclassification

Companies are increasingly using subcontractors, temporary staffing agencies, leased employees, and independent contractors to supplement or, sometimes, replace their regular workforces....more

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China to Strictly Regulate Secondment/Staffing Business Model

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Amendments to the PRC Labor Contract Law take effect on July 1, adding limitations on employment structures. On July 1, 2013, amendments to the People's Republic of China (PRC) Labor Contract Law will take effect. The...more

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