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The National Labor Relations Board recently invalidated an arbitration agreement that would require employees to arbitrate all “all claims or controversies” with their employer, holding that such a provision would unlawfully restrict employees’...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Parental leave policies are back in the news. Jones Day, one of the nation’s largest law firms, faces legal action claiming its parental leave policy is discriminatory. The policy at issue provides 10 weeks of paid parental leave for biological...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

The State of New Jersey has passed several laws in the wage-hour area that are definitely pro-employee, to say the least. The latest effort on this front is something quite special, or onerous, depending on which side you are on....By: Fox Rothschild LLP

The New Jersey DOL is very aggressive on the issue of independent contractor status, i.e. the issue of misclassification. The latest, perhaps best (or worst) illustration of this view is the agency’s determination that court reporters are employees...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

On August 6, 2019, in State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) overstepped its limited rulemaking and enforcement power...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Chicago’s Fair Workweek Ordinance imposes a sweeping, predictive scheduling obligation on employers to provide employees with advance notice of work schedules and pay employees “predictability pay” for late changes to an employee’s work schedule....By: Fox Rothschild LLP

The Hellenic DPA has issued an opinion regarding the appropriate legal basis for processing employee data under GDPR: Consent should be used as the legal basis only where the other legal bases do not apply....By: Fox Rothschild LLP

When a contractor delivers goods to the government that do not conform to the precise requirements of the contract, the results are usually . . . not good. When the agency specifies certain products in the contract, the contractor should plan to...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)* recently cleared several investments and acquisitions involving foreign actors, giving businesses a small glimpse into which investment characteristics the interagency committee may be...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

It seems that with the resignation of Secretary Acosta there is going to be a decidedly more pro-business posture for the agency. This is because Patrick Pizzella, who will take over, has let it be known that he will be “hitting the gas” according to...By: Fox Rothschild LLP