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A federal trial court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a participant in an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) claiming that fiduciaries of the ESOP caused it to overpay for stock of the company in a leveraged transaction. The court concluded...By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

After enacting progressive sexual harassment laws just last year, New York State (NYS) lawmakers have once again strengthened employee protections in the workplace. Governor Cuomo signed Assembly Bill No. 8421 into law on August 12, 2019, expanding...By: Arent Fox

Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Washington and Rhode Island have recently joined the growing ranks of states that prohibit non-competes with lower income workers, reflecting a growing public policy concern regarding fairness of imposing...By: Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

The National Labor Relations Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) on Monday, August 12, 2019, proposing three amendments to its current rules and regulations aimed at addressing representation election procedures – with...By: Proskauer - Labor Relations

Retirement Community Discriminated Against Two Employees by Demanding They Work on Sabbath, Federal Agency Charged - CHATTANOOGA-Century Park Associates, LLC, d/b/a Garden Plaza at Greenbriar Cove (Century), operating a senior and assisted living...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

On April 15, 2019, the Indiana Court of Appeals issued a ruling that significantly developed restrictive covenant law in two areas: whether courts may reform contracts (as opposed to blue-penciling them) and whether non-solicitation provisions can...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

On the heels of enacting a law to prohibit hairstyle discrimination, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that amends the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) to expressly prohibit employment discrimination based on attire,...By: Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

New Jersey’s new Wage Theft Act will likely make the state a destination for wage and hour class actions as the new law includes critical employee protections and harsher penalties for employers, and extends the statute of limitations for minimum...By: Morgan Lewis

In its 2018 decision in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the California Supreme Court upended decades of precedent by setting out a new, stringent, three-factor test to determine proper worker classification for...By: Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive

As we reported in our blog post, and our summer newsletter, in late June, the New York Legislature passed a bill that vastly changed the discrimination and harassment landscape for employers. Today, Gov. Cuomo signed that bill into law. ...By: BakerHostetler