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(Podcast) California Employment News: Fair Chance Act – A Brief Overview of Employment Criminal Background Checks
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(Podcast) California Employment News: Breaking Down Los Angeles’ Fair Work Week Ordinance
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(Podcast) California Employment News: AB 2499 – Expanded Rights & Protections for Victims of Violence in the Workplace
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2024 in Review: Massachusetts Labor and Employment Law Highlights
The Second District Court of Appeal held that, under the pre-reform PAGA statute, an individual employee need not have been employed or experienced a Labor Code violation during the one-year PAGA limitations period to have...more
A federal district court in Texas on May 15, 2025, vacated the gender identity parts of the 2024 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace (the EEOC Guidance). The...more
In Collins v. Wieland Copper Prods., LLC, _____ N.C. App. ______, 910 S.E.2d 373 (2024), the Court of Appeals held that a prior settlement agreement with an employee for a prior work injury did not bar the employee from...more
On April 3, 2025, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (“DOL”) filed proposed new rules codifying its interpretation of the statutory ABC test to determine whether an individual is considered an...more
Heeding outcry by employers, the Connecticut legislature has nullified the state Supreme Court’s interpretation of temporary partial disability provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act....more
New York Labor Law (NYLL) Section 191 mandates that employers pay employees their wages within a certain frequency depending on the classification of employees. For employees that meet the definition of a “manual worker,” the...more
New York State has resolved a recent judicial split regarding pay frequency violation remedies by amending the New York Labor Law (“NYLL”) to limit an employee’s ability to recover sizeable liquidated damages. New York...more
California Labor Code section 512 guarantees a thirty (30) minute, off-duty, meal period for employees after five (5) work hours, and a second thirty (30) minute, off duty, meal period after ten (10) work hours. Section 512...more
The lone decision from the 3rd Dept today is very harsh. In Matter of Coyle v. W & W Steel Erectors, the 3rd Dept. affirmed the Board Panel’s decision to reject an appeal as late, despite the basis for the appeal being a...more
The 2025 New York State budget includes a provision that reduces the potential damages available to plaintiffs for violation of the weekly pay requirement of the New York Labor Law....more
Following the US Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright announcing the end of Chevron deference, lower federal courts have begun to apply the decision to uphold some federal wage-hour rules while striking down others; state...more
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin recently provided significant guidance resolving uncertainty about the scope of the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act’s (WFEA) prohibition against discrimination based on an employee’s or...more
Girardin v. AN Fort Myers Imports, LLC, Fla. 1st DCA, No. 1D2022-1485, February 19, 2025 - The First District Court of Appeal overturned an award for nonprofessional attendant care because the judge of compensation claims...more
Recently, in a case of first impression, Judge Angel Kelley of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts confronted a “seemingly simple” question on a motion to dismiss: does a difference of one day...more
Real World Impact: A recent New Jersey Superior Court decision interpreting the federal Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFAA) may require New Jersey employers to defend an employee’s...more
This summer, the Supreme Court made waves with its decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Decided on June 28, 2024, the case overturned Chevron deference, a decades-long cornerstone of administrative law. Loper...more
The Connecticut Supreme Court recently adopted the U.S. Supreme Court's relatively narrow definition of “supervisor” for use in determining when employers are liable under the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act (CFEPA)...more
In the US, the relationship between employers and employees is heavily regulated by statute at both the state and federal level, and the provision of employee benefits is also highly regulated, primarily at the federal level....more
On May 15, 2024, the New Jersey Supreme Court held in Maia v. IEW Construction Group that both the six-year look-back period and liquidated damages provided by the state Wage Theft Act (WTA) do not apply retroactively....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The New Jersey Supreme Court held that amendments to New Jersey’s Wage and Hour Law and Wage Payment Law that increase employer wage-hour liability are not retroactive....more
In a unanimous decision, on May 15, 2024, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that the state’s amendments (Chapter 212) to the Wage Payment Law (WPL) and the Wage and Hour Law (WHL) apply prospectively, and therefore plaintiffs...more
Texas, a traditionally employer-friendly state that seldom imposes requirements on employers that are more stringent than federal law, recently passed a new sexual harassment law that does just that. The law, which took...more
Plaintiffs in employment discrimination lawsuits have tried to sue in New York City because its anti-discrimination laws have been labelled the “most progressive in the nation.”...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: A Massachusetts trial court judge ruled that employees were entitled to premium pay for work on Sundays at a call center, under a Massachusetts statute governing Sunday and holiday work at a retail “store...more
The year 2019 brought a number of adjustments in the legal landscape for California employers – and meal periods were no exception. California appellate courts buckled down on the interpretation of statutory language in two...more