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Employees or applicants with disabling medical conditions must place the employer on notice of such condition in order to claim protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act. However, as reminded in a new decision from the Tenth Circuit Court...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Under the Christian Doctrine, prime contractors face the risk of having a court or a board of contract appeals read a clause into their contracts, even if it was omitted from the contract that they signed. In this entry we discuss whether the...By: Husch Blackwell LLP

On September 10, by a vote of 29–11, the California Senate passed legislation known as AB 5 – a law codifying the "ABC test" from the landmark Dynamex v. Superior Court case, 4. Cal. 5th 903 (2018), to determine whether a service provider is an...By: Cooley LLP

In 2018, California passed a law that greatly expanded sexual harassment training requirements for employers (see here). Under the law, employers of as few as five people must provide two hours of interactive sexual harassment training to their...By: Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Misclassification of employees as independent contractors "does not violate the [National Labor Relations] Act,” the NLRB held last month. The decision is precedential as no other Board case has specifically dealt with whether this type of employer...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Wildfires pose an increasingly serious threat to the public and environment in California. So it should be no surprise that the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) amended Appendix G of California Environmental Quality Act’s (CEQA)...By: Farella Braun + Martel LLP

President Donald Trump’s recent Tweet suggesting that four Democratic congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came” has sparked robust debate across the country. So what happens when an...By: Butler Snow LLP

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Aug. 30 signed into law a bill that extends the deadline for small businesses (five or more employees) to conduct harassment prevention training for both supervisory and non-supervisory personnel. In short, the new...By: Fenwick & West LLP

In Rankin v. South Street Downtown Holdings, Inc., 2019 N.H. LEXIS 165, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire considered, pursuant to a question transferred by the trial court, whether RSA 508:4-b, the statute of repose for improvements to real...By: White and Williams LLP

Following the launch of the so-called “MeToo” movement, the California Legislature (controlled by a Democratic supermajority) has aggressively churned out new bills that further strengthen the ability for workers to sue their employers and increase...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP