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California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed AB 51 into law, which means that effective January 1, 2010, employers will (purportedly) be prohibited from requiring employees to consent to mandatory arbitration of employment claims. Here is what your...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

New York recently extended its protections of the New York City Human Rights Law to non-employees, including contractors and freelancers, following in the footsteps of New York State, which recently amended its Human Rights Law in a similar manner....By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

Calculating overtime pay for tipped employees working in multiple positions at different rates in a single workweek can be confusing. So confusing, in fact, that we discovered that even the District of Columbia’s Department of Employment Services...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the EEO-1 Component 2 2017 and 2018 data submission deadline on September 30. On September 27, the EEOC announced in a court filing that collection of Component 2 data is continuing as long as “the Court’s order is in...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

Yesterday, the Department of Labor (DOL) released the final version of its long-anticipated update to the rule calculating overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act. As you might recall, the DOL attempted to update the overtime rule...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

Interested parties and privacy professionals have all been anxiously awaiting how legislative activity would shake out before the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) is implemented January 1, 2020. Now that the dust has settled inside the golden...By: Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Employers and retail giants alike are increasingly inserting mental health into the broader, public conversation around individual health care and employee benefits. Various U.S. employers are rolling out employee-based benefit programs to improve...By: Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave, M.G.L c. 175M (“MAPFML”) establishes a system of paid leave of up to 12 weeks for birth, adoption or foster care, 12 weeks to care for a family member, 20 weeks for an employee’s own illness, and 26 weeks...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

An important deadline approaches for those employers required to file the EEO-1 survey – which generally includes employers with at least 100 employees. In April 2019, a federal court ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

In a significant victory for California employers who use arbitration agreements, the California Supreme Court ruled (ZB, N.A. et al. v. Superior Court of San Diego County, S246711 (September 12, 2019)) that the recovery of underpaid wages was not a...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits