On July 3, 2024, a federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary injunction barring the FTC from enforcing its proposed near-absolute national ban on non-competition agreements. The Rule was scheduled to take effect September...more
7/9/2024
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Texas
After more than a decade’s worth of attempts, Congress has finally passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The PWFA broke through the logjam as part of the must-pass $1.7 trillion government funding bill shepherded...more
As expected, OSHA has issued a new COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), which goes into effect on November 5, 2021. The ETS requires most private sector employers with 100 or more employees to implement and enforce...more
With several promising vaccinations for the COVID-19 virus scheduled to be released to the public over the next few months, many businesses have been wondering how they can speed up the return to some semblance of normalcy,...more
12/24/2020
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Civil Rights Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
GINA ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Title VII ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
The questions of when or in what jobs telework will constitute a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are not new ones. However, the data—the actual results of a widespread teleworking...more
In our May 19, 2020 alert, Plan Now for Bringing Back Your Workforce – Part IV, we detailed the EEOC's guidance on high-risk employees (i.e. employees with medical conditions that render them particularly vulnerable to...more
L.D. 369 was initially titled “An Act to Support Healthy Workplaces and Healthy Families by Providing Earned Paid Sick Leave to Certain Employees.” However, it was transformed during the amendment process into “An Act...more
What happens when, at the end of a good faith interactive dialogue and despite the parties’ best efforts, there is apparently no reasonable accommodation that will enable the employee to perform the essential functions of...more
When is it safe to terminate an employee who has exhausted (or is ineligible for) Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave, but who is unable to return to work? This question continues to confound employers, and has been the...more
1/3/2018
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AstraZeneca ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Medical Leave ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Risk Management ,
Termination ,
Title III
In Romulus v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., five former Shift Supervisors brought a putative class action against CVS under the Massachusetts Wage Act, contending they were required to work through their unpaid breaks. Specifically,...more
Recent District of Hawaii decision suggests social media policies are more important than ever, despite NLRB’s dramatic limits on employers’ ability to police employee speech on the Internet -
Howard v. Hertz -...more