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Wages - Employers frequently face a rash of absences and call-offs in the wake of a natural disaster. Generally, whether a business is required to pay an employee who misses work depends on whether the employee is exempt or non-exempt under the Fair...By: Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

Pennsylvania recently passed noteworthy new legislation known as the Construction Industry Employee Verification Act (the “Act”). The Act requires all employers in the construction industry to use E-Verify, a free government database, to confirm the...By: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

The Delaware Superior Court has rejected the effort of a physician, bound by a noncompetition covenant with his former practice group, to argue that the covenant was unenforceable because the practice placed him on “garden leave” during the final...By: Morris James LLP

Partner Deanna Forbush of our Labor & Employment Practice Group recently secured a victory in the Nevada Supreme Court on a matter of first impression that will benefit all employers by establishing a two-year statute of limitations for wrongful...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

On October 10, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed several notable new employment laws, effective on January 1, 2020....By: Cooley LLP

As most employers now know, the U.S. Department of Labor will be raising the salary thresholds that apply to most of the “white-collar” overtime exemptions effective January 1. The higher thresholds will apply primarily to employees who would...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

As the UK’s expected departure from the European Union approaches – currently scheduled for October 31 – the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been developing a tougher and more interventionist approach to competition enforcement. Low...By: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Lost profits, not part of unpaid contract balance, may be recoverable as consequential damages in contract claim, but cannot be included in lien. TSP Services Inc. v. National-Standard, LLC, 2019 BL 340267 (Mich. Ct. App. Sept. 10, 2019)...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

On September 26, 2019, Justice Saliann Scarpulla of the New York State Supreme Court, County of New York, Commercial Division, dismissed a putative class action against a dental products and services company and certain of its executives and...By: Shearman & Sterling LLP

Good news out of Detroit late yesterday, with officials from General Motors and the United Autoworkers Union striking a “tentative agreement on a new labor contract that could end the monthlong strike that has idled G.M. plants across the Midwest and...By: Robins Kaplan LLP