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Employers, beware. It has been reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has recently begun random onsite inspections of STEM OPT employment. Reports are that ICE, during its inspections, has questioned employers about whether U.S. workers...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

In 2012 as part of a tax reform bill, Congress directed the Department of Labor to issue regulations that would permit states to condition unemployment insurance benefits for certain recipients on their ability to pass drug tests. The law defined...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

On October 10, 2019, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 51 (AB 51) into law, prohibiting employers from requiring employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements as a condition of employment....By: Fox Rothschild LLP

In September, Georgetown University Law Center hosted its 13th Annual Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium and Fordham University School of Law hosted its 46th Annual International Antitrust Law and Policy Conference. Each year, these symposia...By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Western District of New York, in Horn v. Medical Marijuana, Inc., et al., issued an initial procedural order last week in a case where the plaintiff’s purchase and use of the defendant products resulted in a failed drug test...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ride-hailing giant Uber laid off 350 workers on Monday as part of an ongoing effort to pare costs that now represents 1000 jobs cut since July....By: Robins Kaplan LLP

Information collected in employment or business-to-business contexts is exempt for one year. For the first year it is in effect, the CCPA will not apply to personal information collected about employees or in B2B transactions by a covered business....By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Employers in the hospitality and restaurant industry are poised for celebration: the Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed eliminating a rule that requires tracking the time tipped employees devote to non-tip producing activities when counting...By: Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Seyfarth Synopsis: Governor Newsom has approved some of the bills most feared by employers, including bills to ban employment arbitration, extend FEHA administrative deadlines, codify the Dynamex ABC test, and create San Francisco-style...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

On October 12, 2019, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 25 into law, giving employees, applicants, independent contractors, emergency contacts and dependents new rights to privacy. As explained in our previous post—Employee Privacy by Design:...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP