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T-Mobile USA, Inc. ("T-Mobile") in 2015 created T-Voice, a nationwide program through which customer service representatives could submit "pain points" regarding certain aspects of the job, including ideas to improve customer service. The majority of...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

At our Shipman & Goodwin Labor & Employment Law seminar last week, one of the hot topics that got attendees talking was about minimum wage & overtime rules — both of which are in the midst of change. But my fellow partners brought up another law in...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP

In a recent published decision, the California Court of Appeal had the opportunity to address this issue when the property owners of a beachside residence in the City of Los Angeles challenged a setback condition that the California Coastal...By: Nossaman LLP

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that prohibits “no rehire” clauses in settlement agreements effective January 1, 2020. The new law will change a standard practice in California of including blanket provisions in employment...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued a decision in employers’ favor by holding that misclassification of an employee as an independent contractor, by itself, does not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)....By: Bricker & Eckler LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: A new decision reinforces that the National Labor Relations Board will invalidate arbitration agreements that explicitly, or when reasonably interpreted, prohibit filing administrative charges....By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has issued proposed regulations addressing how individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs) can comply with the Employer Shared Responsibility Payments (ESRP) requirements under the Affordable...By: Ballard Spahr LLP

On October 11, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 51, which will drastically change the requirements for employers who use arbitration agreements.  Specifically, the new law bans employers from requiring, as a condition of employment,...By: Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Background - Last week, the United States Federal Court for the District of Massachusetts granted Defendant food delivery company DoorDash’s motion to compel arbitration in a case brought by employee and food delivery driver, Darnell Austin....By: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

If you thought employers were overburdened with wage penalties in California, you were wrong. Well, you were right, but apparently the California legislature doesn't think so....By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP