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The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (“DFML”) has posted the much-anticipated final regulations regarding Massachusetts’ Paid Family and Medical Leave law (“PFML”). The final regulations come on the heels of Massachusetts...By: Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

On June 3, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a defendant-employer’s motion for summary judgment on SOX and Dodd-Frank whistleblower retaliation claims, finding that the alleged whistleblowing did not involve...By: Proskauer - Whistleblowing & Retaliation

A recent personal injury verdict in Brooklyn is one of the largest ever awarded to a single plaintiff in New York state.  The verdict highlights the utility of two procedural tools available to defendants facing excessive verdicts: a motion to set...By: Harris Beach PLLC

‘No-poach’ agreements between businesses not to compete with each other for employees have long been held unlawful under Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits certain restraints on trade and competition. Historically, the Department...By: Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

On May 23, 2019, the New Jersey District Court in Kunal Shah v. Meditab Software, Inc. refused to dismiss the retaliation claim of a software company’s former Chief Executive Officer, even though he notified the company of his intent to resign months...By: Genova Burns LLC

Employers may be surprised to learn that the Republican-controlled National Labor Relations Board just issued a unanimous decision invalidating an employer’s mandatory arbitration agreement that could be reasonably interpreted as preventing employees...By: Fisher Phillips

In order to support the District of Columbia’s new Universal Paid Leave Act (the Act), covered employers will be required to contribute to the Universal Paid Leave Implementation Fund (the Fund), by way of a payroll tax of 0.62 percent of the annual...By: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

We would like to alert you to a resolution by Russia’s Chief State Sanitary Physician that affects employers of foreign nationals, including those temporarily or permanently residing in Russia. This is Resolution No. 2 “On Measles Catch-Up...By: Dentons

The Kansas Supreme Court recently reversed the Kansas Court of Appeals, and re-instated a three-plus million dollar jury verdict in favor of an injured BNSF Railway worker. It did so after finding that it was for the jury — not the Judge — to...By: Butler Snow LLP

In Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis (U.S. June 3, 2019), the U.S. Supreme Court (Court) held that the charge-filing requirement under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) is not jurisdictional. The case involved an information...By: Bracewell LLP