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As reported by Trade Secrets Watch last month, several states (including Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island) recently passed legislation curtailing the use of non-compete agreements.  Now, the federal government wants in on the action....By: Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

For employees boisterously raising employment-related concerns on behalf of a larger group, when might their words or actions be so hostile or offensive that they lose the protections of federal labor law? The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)...By: Nilan Johnson Lewis PA

On May 3, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed amendments to the financial disclosure requirements in Rules 3-05, 3-14 and Article 11 of Regulation S-X governing acquisitions and dispositions of businesses. According to the...By: King & Spalding

Applying its new standard for determining whether employer policies violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a divided National Labor Relations Board (Board) upheld policies prohibiting employee disclosure of client and vendor information and...By: Akerman LLP - HR Defense

The title of this post describes not an army maneuver, but the outcome of a recent lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court for advancement of litigation expenses in which......By: Farrell Fritz, P.C.

In a new case filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on October 10, 2019 at Docket No. GD-19-014418, Derek Gsell of Moon Township, Pennsylvania is suing Universal Electric Corporation for rescinding a job offer because...By: Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination in employment against persons who are disabled, as well as those regarded as disabled. Last week, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals joined other federal courts in holding that the ADA...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from 9:30 a.m. to noon ET at agency headquarters, 131 M Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. The meeting will be open to public...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

As in implementing regulation of Law of the Republic Indonesia No.5 of 1999 on the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition and Government Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia No.57 of 2010 on Mergers and...By: Dentons

Over the past weeks, I’ve written a few times on the ongoing requirements and changing deadlines of the EEOC’s EEO-1 survey Component 2 data submission. Just yesterday, the EEOC announced a new deadline by which employers should submit their...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits