Legal News

Recently, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) released guidance on how to report wages paid under the state Paid Family and Medical Leave Law (PFML) for employers’ fourth quarter 2019 PFML return. This guidance was released to ensure...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

As the world responds to the accelerating 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak originating in Wuhan, China - a situation now declared by the World Health Organization to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern - multinational...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

On January 21, 2020, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Senate Bill 3170, which expands New Jersey’s Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act (New Jersey WARN Act) well beyond the requirements of the federal Worker Adjustment and...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Severance and litigation settlement agreements often include a provision that prohibits one or more of the parties from making “disparaging” statements about the other. Such non-disparagement clauses are commonly used, but infrequently litigated....By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

In Canada, if an employer wishes to terminate an employee without cause, it must provide notice or pay in lieu thereof. In other words, unlike in the United States, Canada does not have employment at-will....By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Coronavirus strain 2019-nCoV has reached the United States. According to the World Health Organization, “common signs of infection include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties....By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

In Allen v. Ambu-Stat, LLC, No. 18-10640 (January 16, 2020), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a Georgia district court’s dismissal of a former employee’s sexual harassment claim and delivered a strong rebuke to a plaintiff...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Where is Everybody? Perhaps due to the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, it’s been a relatively quiet week in the labor and employment arena in Washington, D.C. President Trump and U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia (along with other...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

In late 2019, Pennsylvania defected from the traditional use of the fluctuating workweek method used to calculate overtime rates for employees working fluctuating hours. Instead, in Chevalier v. General Nutrition Centers, Inc., the Supreme Court of...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

On December 18, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published final rules that will take effect April 16, 2020, changing and clarifying many of the procedures established in the 2014 amendments to the representation case procedures. Part...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,