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Company Refused to Accommodate Employee With Anxiety By Reassignment to Vacant Position, Federal Agency Charges - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Citizens Bank, N.A. violated federal law by failing to reassign a long-term employee to one of several vacant...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Wrapping up by the June 30 deadline with time to spare, the General Assembly sent the Governor all of the legislative pieces necessary for a balanced 2019-2020 state spending plan. This year included all possible “Code bills:” Administrative Code,...By: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

California legislators are tweaking language in a proposal to exclude employee or job applicant data from the State’s landmark privacy law slated to take effect in January. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants consumers the right to...By: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Happy holiday weekend! With the Fourth of July approaching, we will go out with a bang. How much do you know about employment law in the news from this week or so? Take our quiz and find out! As always, the answers appear immediately after each...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Further liberalisation of the Myanmar banking and financial services sector The Central Bank of Myanmar (“CBM”) is making significant strides towards opening up Myanmar’s banking and finance sector.  In the past few months, it has taken steps towards...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

New York State is on its way to enacting comprehensive reforms to broaden the scope of its discrimination and harassment laws, including one of the most robust anti-harassment bills in the #MeToo era, amendments to the State’s Equal Pay Act to...By: Akerman LLP

The task of securing company networks and systems is no longer delegated solely to an organization’s IT department. Human resources plays an equally important role in protecting company data. The authors of this article explain how human resources...By: Blank Rome LLP

New York State is on its way to enacting comprehensive reforms to broaden the scope of its discrimination and harassment laws, including one of the most robust anti-harassment bills in the #MeToo era, amendments to the State’s Equal Pay Act to...By: Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Following its Boeing Company decision, the National Labor Relations Board continues to issue advisory opinions regarding the legality of common employer policies under the National Labor Relations Act. The policies are reviewed as to whether they...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Pre-employment drug screening for marijuana is starting to create exposure for employers. In several states, including Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts, courts have ruled that employees have a valid claim against an employer for terminating or...By: SmithAmundsen LLC