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On December 16, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a decision in Caesars Entertainment holding that businesses may restrict employees from using a company’s internal email systems for union and organizing activities. In so...By: Payne & Fears

U.S. immigration law is a complicated legal area that requires the services of exceptional employment-based immigration lawyers. It takes a specific legal skillset and knowledge of your business to provide a high level of employment-based immigration...By: Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP

With less than a year remaining before Brazil's General Data Protection Law (referred to as the LGPD) takes effect, HR professionals should start preparing. Originally Published in of SHRM - January 2020....By: Littler

As of January 6, 2020, New York employers are prohibited from inquiring about an applicant’s prior salary. The ban, codified as N.Y. Lab. Law § 194-a, was signed into law by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on July 10, 2019, but did not go into effect...By: FordHarrison

After being approved by both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (the SECURE Act) was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Dec. 20, 2019, as part of the Further...By: Holland & Knight LLP

Wednesday, January 8th, saw a state court conclude that California’s controversial new misclassification law doesn’t apply to truck drivers, the second time in the last few weeks that a judge has come down hard on AB-5 for going too far in limiting...By: Fisher Phillips

Arbitration is a strongly favored federal policy and generally can be relied on to resolve even statutory discrimination claims. This is not a novel concept in federal jurisprudence from the Supreme Court of the United States down (although...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

On December 6, 2019, the New Jersey Appellate Division in V. L. v. Hunterdon Healthcare et. al., reversed and remanded a trial court’s order dismissing an employee’s claims of disability discrimination and retaliatory discharge under the New Jersey...By: Genova Burns LLC

Depending on whom you ask, labor law during the Obama administration was “the best of times, the worst of times, the age of wisdom, the age of foolishness, the epoch of belief, the epoch of incredulity . . .” – you get the point. Under the Obama...By: Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP

In December 2019, U.S. lawmakers passed the SECURE (Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement) Act. While the goal of this new law is to encourage more Americans to save for retirement, it also requires some to re-think their estate...By: Gross McGinley LLP