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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has held under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) that employers may maintain and enforce rules requiring confidentiality for the duration of a workplace investigation. Apogee Retail LLC d/b/a Unique...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

The National Labor Relations Board continues to trend pro-employer in its December rulings, with the latest blow to unions coming in the form of a ban on using a company email account for union purposes....By: Barley Snyder

A new Virginia statute limits employers’ use of nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements with respect to “sexual assault” as a condition of employment. Under the new law, “Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Agreements; Sexual Assault, Condition of...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

On December 23, the National Labor Relations Board reversed its 2014 decision in Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co, Inc., and reinstated the legal standard for deferring to the arbitration process that had existed prior to the Babcock decision....By: Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

On December 19, President Trump signed the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (“SECURE”) Act as part of the government’s spending bill. Under current law, depending on whether a deceased account owner died before or after his or...By: Roetzel & Andress

One year after news broke nationwide of south New Jersey high school wrestler Andrew Johnson forced to choose between forfeiting a wrestling match or having his dreadlocks cut off, New Jersey has joined California and New York in banning...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

As 2019 comes to a close, here is a look ahead to some of the legislation going into effect on January 1, 2020, that affects employers in California. Independent Contractors- Assembly Bill 5 codifies and clarifies the California Supreme Court’s...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: • Malaysia not getting much help to find Jho Low. (Bloomberg) • Lilly said it would cut prices for generic insulin. Did it? (Washington Post) • What does the CCPA mean? (NYT) • Reports of sexual harassment...By: Thomas Fox

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review two consolidated cases that will afford it an opportunity to develop the “ministerial exception” to employment discrimination laws it first announced in a 2012 case, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

SUPREME COURT HEARS DACA ARGUMENTS - On November 12, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court heard almost 90 minutes of oral argument on the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program.......By: Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP