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To combat historical imbalances in pay of women and minorities, New Jersey recently passed a bill amending New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD) to prohibit employers from asking prospective employees about their current salaries....By: Flaster Greenberg PC

This fall there will be significant labour reforms in the federal sector. As well, consultations will continue on pay equity, pay transparency, protection of wages where the employer is bankrupt, sexual harassment, accessibility for persons with...By: Bennett Jones LLP

The debate about whether the Dynamex decision applies retroactively is alive again thanks to a reverse course by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  As we previously discussed, in April 2018, the California Supreme Court issued a groundbreaking...By: Hogan Lovells

The New Jersey DOL is very aggressive on the issue of independent contractor status, i.e. the issue of misclassification. The latest, perhaps best (or worst) illustration of this view is the agency’s determination that court reporters are employees...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Uzbekistan appears to be entering a new stage of development and investment opportunities. For many years, under its former ruler, Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan offered little appeal to foreign investors, raking extremely low in civil rights and...By: King & Spalding

During college in the 1970s, I spent my summers working as a framer in residential construction; I was what was affectionately known in the trades as a nail bender. We would arrive at a building site a day or two after the concrete forms had been...By: Tonkon Torp LLP

Employers in Illinois will have new obligations related to employment contracts, training, and agency oversight under a wide-ranging bill signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker on August 9, 2019, that is intended to combat workplace harassment and provide...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

The Basics - Representations and warranties insurance (R&W Insurance) protects a party from financial losses resulting from inaccuracies in the representations and warranties made about a target company or business in connection with certain...By: Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

There has been an unprecedented wave of consolidation in the U.S. payment processing industry this year, with two major core processors acquiring the two largest merchant acquirers, and two of the largest remaining payment technology companies...By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

On August 9, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) issued the first of an anticipated sequence of regulations addressing certain union election procedures.  The proposed rule, published in the Federal Register, proposes...By: Polsinelli