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Seyfarth Synopsis: Set to take effect on January 1, 2020, AB 51 would make it unlawful for employers to impose arbitration agreements on employees as a condition of employment, even if employees are permitted to opt out. As expected, AB 51 was...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The flurry of activity from National Labor Relations Board in late 2019 was a fairly consistent drum beat of good news for employers.  In many cases, the Board restored decades of precedent that had been upended by the Board during the Obama...By: McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far, far away, California passed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), which took effect on January 1, 2020. AB5 is designed to crack down on companies classifying workers as independent contractors rather than employees....By: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday, December 31st, to halt enforcement of California’s Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), regarding truck drivers, only hours before the law went into effect on January 1, 2020.  AB 5, often referred...By: Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: Congress takes aim at NCAA. (WSJ) Massive Cambridge Analytica document dump. (The Guardian) Does Ghosn flight bode no bail for super wealthy going forward? (FT) Ex-Ecuador President charged with...By: Thomas Fox

The Fair Chance Act prohibits federal contractors from inquiring about a job applicant’s criminal background in certain cases in the initial stages of the application process. The Act will go into effect on December 20, 2021....By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

A collection of national trends, legislation, regulation and litigation that we expect to have a significant impact on the workplace in 2020. Please see full Publication below for more information....By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

On January 2, 2020, the Attorney General for the State of California released the title and summary of Initiative 19-0026—a proposed ballot measure that would overturn the state’s recently enacted independent contractor law, AB 5, with respect to...By: Littler

Concluding that it too broadly defined “employer” and raised a myriad of due process concerns that subjected it to risks of unconstitutionality, on December 31, 2019, Governor Andrew Cuomo Governor Cuomo vetoed a bill that would have allowed a...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

A bill to amend the New Jersey Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Loss Job Notification Act, also commonly referred to as the New Jersey WARN Act (“NJ WARN Act”), which the New Jersey Senate passed on December 16, 2019, if enacted, will create...By: Epstein Becker & Green