On August 20, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas granted summary judgment against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and set aside the FTC’s rule adopting a ban on most non-competition...more
On July 3, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction against the implementation of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) rule adopting a ban on non-competition...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule adopting a comprehensive ban on non-competition agreements and clauses, which prevent workers from leaving for a competitor for a certain period of...more
On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed into law the "Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act" (“the Act”), also referred to as the "#MeToo Act." ...more
3/4/2022
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On December 1, 2016 – the day that the Department of Labor’s (DOL's) proposed white collar salary threshold regulations originally were supposed to go into effect – the DOL filed an appeal with the Fifth Circuit Court of...more
On November 22, 2016, U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas granted a nationwide, preliminary injunction that at least temporarily blocks the Department of Labor (DOL) from adopting or...more
On December 1, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor's new overtime rule will go into effect. Most significantly, the minimum salary an employee must be paid to qualify for the executive, administrative and professional...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (covering California and eight other western states) on Monday joined the Seventh Circuit, and disagreed with the Fifth Circuit, in rejecting a mandatory employment arbitration...more
8/25/2016
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It's time to schedule your check-up -- your wage and hour check-up -- designed to try to prevent your company from becoming a defendant in a costly wage and hour lawsuit. Every year more wage and hour lawsuits are filed...more