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Top Five Labor Law Developments For October 2017

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 11/16/2017

Home health aides who successfully objected to the collection of “fair share” fees without their consent may not proceed as a class, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago, has ruled,...more

Executive Labor Summary - November / December 2016

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 12/22/2016

NEWS & ANALYSIS - President-Elect Trump chooses Andrew F. Puzder for U.S. Secretary of Labor – “the times they are a changin’.” As we reported at the time, on December 8 President-Elect Trump announced that Andrew F....more

Executive Labor Summary - May / June 2016

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 7/1/2016

NEWS & ANALYSIS - DOL Persuader Rule will not take effect July 1, after court issues preliminary injunction – In the second decision to be issued in the three lawsuits challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s new...more

Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Bars Implementation of Department of Labor's "Persuader Rule"

BakerHostetler on 6/30/2016

On June 27, a federal court in Texas enjoined the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) from implementing its new interpretation of the “Persuader Rule.” In a sweeping 86-page rebuff to the DOL, the court opined that the...more

Two Additional Lawsuits Filed Challenging the DOL’s Final Persuader Rule

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/5/2016

In follow-up to our earlier blog post about the first lawsuit to challenge the U.S. Department of Labor’s Final Persuader Rule that was promulgated in late March, two additional lawsuits have been filed challenging the Final...more

Not So Fast! Business Groups Sue to Block DOL "Persuader" Rule

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 4/4/2016

On March 30, 2016, one week after the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published its final “Persuader” Rule, the National Association of Manufacturers and other national, state and local business groups sued the DOL to block...more

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