Legal News

The legal industry is constantly challenged by how to do more with less. In today’s market, law firms and legal departments are under increased pressure to control costs and increase productivity. Coupled with changing views about work-life balance,...By: Major, Lindsey & Africa

A recent Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decision considered whether a franchisee who entered into a franchise agreement with a franchisor was an employee or an independent contractor. The fact-specific case, Modern Cleaning Concept Inc. v. Comité...By: Littler

On July 30, 2019, a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas seeking to enjoin the City of Dallas’s paid sick leave ordinance, which is set to take effect on August 1, 2019. The lawsuit, filed by the Texas Public...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Q: What do New York employers need to know about the recent amendment to the state’s pay equity law? A: In November 2015, New York became one of the first jurisdictions to pass a pay equity law that was more extensive than the federal equal pay...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") was signed into law on June 28, 2018 and will take effect on January 1, 2020. The enforcement date - the first date on which the Attorney General may bring an enforcement action under the CCPA - is...By: Hudson Cook, LLP

Medical Transportation Company Refused to Provide a Sabbath Accommodation to a Jehovah's Witness Employee, Then Fired Her, Federal Agency Charged - MEMPHIS, Tenn. - American Medical Response of Tennessee, Inc. (AMR), a Naperville, Ill. based...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

This edition of Employment Flash looks at developments in labor and employment law, including a Supreme Court ruling that Title VII’s charge-filing requirement is nonjurisdictional and new state legislation in New York, Illinois and Washington that...By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

In January 2020, Nevada will become the first state to bar employers from refusing to hire a prospective employee due to a positive drug test for cannabis. The new law carves out some exceptions for employees who operate a motor vehicle or whose...By: Stokes Wagner

Two days before the Dallas paid sick leave ordinance goes into effect, two companies filed suit against the City challenging the ordinance. Attorneys with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which represents these companies in the lawsuit, sent the...By: FordHarrison

Illinois employers must be cognizant of new Illinois laws including bans on salary history inquiries, restrictions on artificial intelligence interview programs, mandatory sexual harassment prevention training, limitations on non-disclosure and...By: Akerman LLP - HR Defense