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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued two 3-1 decisions this week, continuing a string of rulings favoring employers over unions or workers. Details on the decisions follow. ...By: Ballard Spahr LLP

EEO-1 filers must submit EEO-1 Component 2 (compensation and hours worked) data for years 2017 and 2018 by the deadline of September 30, 2019. However, on September 12, 2019, the EEOC announced that it does not intend to require EEO-1 filers to...By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

What a colossal waste this has been. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a Notice, published in yesterday's Federal Register, proposing that it will not seek to collect employers' compensation data (aka "Category 2" data) after the...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Showing, again, that workplace gossip can get you sued. I really feel that the employer will win this case, for reasons I'll discuss below, but first . . . A federal judge has said that starting malicious rumors that a male employee is a...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

What rights do employees of tenants or other occupants of office buildings have to bring service animals and emotional support animals into New York City office buildings? What rules and restrictions can the owners of office buildings impose? What...By: Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: The IRS recently issued somewhat helpful guidance to plan administrators on what to do about the constant problem of uncashed benefit checks from qualified retirement plans. The initial excitement upon hearing the news, however,...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

On May 8, Governor Jay Inslee of Washington State signed into law Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1450, which dramatically alters the state's law governing noncompetition agreements. It takes effect January 1, 2020, and covers both new and existing...By: Cooley LLP

California Employee mobility and the right to compete are sacrosanct in California, and have been since its Legislature enacted section 16600 of the California Business and Professions Code, which voids “every contract by which anyone is restrained...By: Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

This is the eleventh in a series of articles about Best Practices for Plan Sponsors. To be clear, “best practices” are not the same as legal requirements. Instead, they are about better ways to manage retirement plans. In many cases, though, “best...By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

2019 has been a busy year for developments in workplace law. With the current administration in Washington taking a very passive stance on regulation of employers, States and Cities have led the charge to expand workers' rights and protections....By: Proskauer Rose LLP