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Foster Swift Collins & Smith

[Webinar] 2024 Labor & Employment Law Virtual Update - September 18th, 8:30 am - 11:00 am ET

It has been a particularly busy year on the labor and employment law front. To learn more about the major challenges employers face and developments your organization needs to address before year's end, we encourage you to...more

Fisher Phillips

SCOTUS 2023/24 Lookback and Preview: 8 Key Rulings that Impact the Workplace and 4 New Cases for Employers to Track Next Term

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The Supreme Court issued several momentous decisions last term that will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an array of issues involving...more

Dechert LLP

When It Rains, It Pours: Supreme Court, EEOC and DOL Release Flood of Employment Law Developments

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Through two unanimous decisions, the Supreme Court has made it easier for employees to avoid arbitration due to their status as "transportation workers" and to challenge job transfers as discriminatory under Title VII. ...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

[Webinar] Shifting Tides: Navigating Online Consumer Disputes in 2024 - January 22nd, 10:00 am - 11:00 am PST

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Join us for a discussion on the best practices for navigating the evolving landscape of dispute resolution for online businesses. We’ll dissect the latest on critical issues like user agreements and privacy disclosures, CIPA...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

What Businesses Need to Know About State Consumer Privacy Laws and Digital Accessibility

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In this latest installment of our ongoing consumer privacy series, we focus on potential digital and offline accessibility requirements in the context of the wave of new U.S. state consumer privacy laws. In the continued...more

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Littler Lightbulb – July Employment Appellate Roundup

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This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal in the last month....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at the Ninth: Arbitration Estoppel and ADA Fees

This week, the Court addresses a plaintiff’s ability to opt out of an arbitration provision after the district court has compelled arbitration and considers a court’s power to award fees under the Americans with Disabilities...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Policy Matters Newsletter - July 2023

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After Lengthy Confirmation Fight, Brace For Intrusive EEOC Action. On July 13, the Senate finally confirmed attorney Kaplana Kotagal — whom we have had numerous occasion to discuss in this space — to join the Equal Employment...more

Fisher Phillips

SCOTUS 2023 Lookback and 2024 Preview: 7 Critical Decisions All Employers Should Review and 3 New Cases to Track

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The Supreme Court’s blockbuster decisions last term dominated the headlines – and many rulings will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an...more

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Littler Lightbulb – June Employment Appellate Roundup

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This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal in the last month. At the Supreme Court...more

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[Webinar] Managing Your Workforce During Market Volatility: Separations, Arbitration, Leaves and Accommodations - June 28th, 1:00...

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Employers are facing new and evolving pressures as they navigate economic uncertainty. This leads to questions and concerns about managing their workforces with minimal disruption and in a way that mitigates risk from...more

Fisher Phillips

Essential Summer Reading List for Employers

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Summer’s the time to sit back and relax and catch up on some light reading you’ve been meaning to get to. And what better way to spend time poolside or at the beach than to scroll through some links from Fisher Phillips? Here...more

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Seventh Circuit Affirms District Court’s Order Denying Application to Vacate Arbitration Award

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Donald Kinsella was an employee of defendant Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC. In June 2013, he suffered a work-related injury resulting in his disability and receipt of disability benefits for three years. Baker Hughes’...more

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The California Employer’s Guide to New 2023 Laws

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As we have seen in just the past few weeks of the new year, laws are rapidly changing for employers. Following our Employment Law Update webinars provided to Private Sector and Non-Profit Employers, and Public Entity...more

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Littler Lightbulb – December Employment Appellate Roundup

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This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal in the last month....more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Court won’t review NFL’s accommodation requirements under ADA

The court punted. On November 21, a federal judge in New Jersey dismissed a lawsuit by former New York Jet Rontez Miles against the National Football League. Mr. Miles had asserted claims for negligence, and violations of...more

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CA Court of Appeal Upholds Arbitration Agreement Under FAA Preemption

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Evenskaas v. California Transit Inc. reversed a Los Angeles Superior Court judge’s denial of an employer’s motion to compel arbitration of a former employee’s wage and hour class action. The trial court had concluded that the...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

2022 Hot Topics in Employment Law Seminar Highlights

On May 13, 2022, the Miles & Stockbridge Labor, Employment, Benefits & Immigration practice group presented its twentieth annual Hot Topics in Employment Law seminar to clients from throughout Maryland and beyond. Topics...more

Payne & Fears

Key California Employment Law Cases: April 2022

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Summary: Good-faith dispute about employment status of freelancer who modeled in sporadic one- or two-day increments precluded imposition of waiting-time penalties pursuant to Labor Code section 203. ...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Food and Beverage Law Update: April 2022

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In Thornton v. Tyson Foods, Inc., No. 20-2124, 2022 WL 727628 (10th Cir. March 11, 2022), a consumer who purchased beef from retail stores filed a class action complaint against meat processors, alleging that their "Product...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

SuperVision - Labor and Employment Law Insights, Issue 1, 2022

The Impact of "Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021" on Employer's Arbitration Provisions - On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed into law H.R. 4445, “Ending Forced Arbitration...more

Lathrop GPM

The Franchise Memorandum - Issue #271

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Ninth Circuit Reverses Class Action Settlement Approval and Fee Award - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the approval of a $10 million voucher settlement and a $2.6 million attorneys’ fee award in a class...more

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The Employment Law Reporter - Spring 2021

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Here is what we cover in this issue of The Employment Law Reporter: •A federal court in New York has dismissed an employment discrimination lawsuit brought by a former employee of the City University of New York. ...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at the Ninth: Arbitration and Accommodation

This week, we take a look at one Ninth Circuit decision exploring the enforceability of an arbitration clause precluding a party from acting as a “private attorney general,” and another addressing whether the Fair Housing...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Class Action Trends Report Winter 2021

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Last year presented many challenges, and 2021 offers a fresh start. In this issue of the Class Actions Trends Report we review the most significant developments of 2020 and take a look forward to what a new year and a new...more

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