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Massachusetts employers should be making their final preparations for the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) program in advance of the Oct. 1, 2019, effective date for payroll deductions. This Holland & Knight alert provides a...By: Holland & Knight LLP

In re Appraisal of Stillwater Mining Co., Consol. C.A. No. 2017-0385-JTL (Del. Ch. Aug. 21, 2019). Recent Delaware Supreme Court decisions on appraisal proceedings have stressed the pivotal importance of the deal price in establishing fair value....By: Morris James LLP

As you may have heard, five amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (AB-25; AB-874; AB-1146; AB-1355; and AB-1564) passed the California legislature last Friday—the deadline for any amendments this year....By: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

It looks like the back-and-forth about how much employee information will be covered under the California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, is likely resolved, at least for now. The California legislature recently passed AB 25, which excludes most...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

While bargaining, unions often demand that employers produce information relevant to the bargaining process so that the union may fulfill its duties as bargaining representative. Under the law and absent some compelling reason for not doing so, NLRA...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Do your employees sign arbitration agreements? If so, do your arbitration agreements prevent employees from joining class actions against your company? Does your company want to start requiring arbitration agreements? If “yes” is the answer to any of...By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

On September 9, 2019, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III of the Delaware Court of Chancery denied Essendant Inc.’s motion to dismiss an action for breach of a merger agreement brought by Genuine Parts Company (“GPC”). Genuine Parts Co. v....By: Shearman & Sterling LLP

In what has become an all-too-familiar headline, an individual who had recently been terminated from his job is responsible for the deaths of seven innocent victims and injury to over a dozen more. Over Labor Day weekend in a small West Texas town,...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

On September 12, 2019, the California Supreme Court decided ZB N.A. v. Superior Court and issued a rare win for employers in a year that has brought, among other things, the near-extinction of the independent contractor classification through the...By: Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP

As of September 11, 2019, the California Senate and Assembly had both passed an employment bill (AB5) that, if signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, would codify the recent extension of employment protections to workers previously classified as independent...By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP