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Under Washington’s new Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML) law, eligible employees will be entitled to up to 12 weeks of paid leave for their own serious health condition (medical leave) or for family care (family leave), up to 16 weeks combined family...By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

What’s old is new again at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as numerous district offices have recently expanded their use of fact-finding conferences. Fact-finding conferences are part of the EEOC’s expansive statutory investigation...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Employers often assume that they own trade secrets developed by their employees. That is not necessarily the case. And failing to take appropriate precautions may result in employers unexpectedly losing their intellectual property protections....By: Fish & Richardson

On December 13, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) issued a proposed rule that will modify the procedures governing NLRB elections. The proposed rule will extend deadlines and add procedural steps to the streamlined...By: Harris Beach PLLC

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation to ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) and create an unprecedented level of oversight over another country’s labor relations. If the bill becomes law, it could prompt...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

Continuing its string of decisions reversing positions taken by the Obama Board, the National Labor Relations Board decided Apogee Retail LLC, No. 27-CA-191574 on December 16, 2019. Apogee Retail applied the approach articulated two years ago in...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

In the recent decision Newton v. Morgantown Machine & Hydraulics, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia limited the state’s public policy regarding the use of self-defense in the workplace. The plaintiff in Newton brought what is known as a...By: Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the Create a Respectful and Open Workspace for Natural Hair (“CROWN”) Act, which prohibits employers from discriminating against applicants or employees based upon hairstyle....By: Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

In an overwhelming 417-3 vote, the US House of Representatives passed the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (the “SECURE Act”), which has now been incorporated into a spending bill that was signed by President Trump on...By: Cole Schotz

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 2, no. 23 (December 12, 2019) - On November 12, 2019, the California Trucking Association filed a suit challenging the sweeping new law, on the grounds that such a law would deprive employees of the right to choose...By: Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics