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It is rare for an employment law case to come before the highest court in Canada. One of 2019’s most significant developments was the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to consider an employee’s appeal of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal’s decision in...By: Littler

The National Labor Relations Board has held that an employer’s obligation to deduct union dues ends when the collective bargaining agreement containing the checkoff provision expires. Valley Hospital Medical Center, Inc. d/b/a Valley Hospital Medical...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is scheduled to publish a Federal Register notice on December 17, 2019, requesting information on toxicological and physicochemical data of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) to evaluate...By: Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

The U.S. Department of Labor released three opinion letters in 2019 regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA). In this episode, Leann Walsh, Melanie Stratton Lopez, and Avery Miller summarize the opinion letters and explain how the...By: K&L Gates LLP

On the latest episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, Brydon DeWitt is joined by colleague Chuck James, partner and co-chair of Williams Mullen’s White Collar Litigation Practice, who will discuss what you need to know when responding to a...By: Williams Mullen

On October 13, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 51 (“AB 51”). In a momentous upheaval of existing law, AB 51 prohibits California employers from requiring employees to agree to arbitrate certain disputes as a...By: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Beginning January 1, 2020, agreements to settle employment disputes may no longer contain “no rehire” provisions, as California passes additional legislation spurred on by the #MeToo movement. California joins Vermont and Oregon as the first states...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

In April 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) requested information from the public on how the DOL could structure a new safe harbor for electronic disclosures under ERISA. The DOL received hundreds of comments from employers and plan sponsors...By: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

1.The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has clarified its test for determining whether an employee’s protected activity under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was a motivating factor in employee discipline. Tschiggfrie Properties, 368 NLRB...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

In this Ropes & Gray podcast, asset management partner Lindsey Goldstein and ERISA partner Josh Lichtenstein discuss ERISA plan fiduciary proxy activities, addressing what the existing regulatory guidance provides as well as some of its ambiguities,...By: Ropes & Gray LLP