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Businesses may employ minors in Massachusetts, but complying with Massachusetts child labor law involves more than just ensuring your workers are 14 or older. Last week, fast-casual Mexican food chain Qdoba Restaurant Corporation learned this lesson...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

It’s been a long while since this blog went into the toilet.  But in this Employment Law Checklist Project, there are two employment laws we need to tackle together that highlight the very specific nature of some laws and how they remain on the...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP

As we have previously written, the issue of employment arbitration agreements and their effect on class action matters has been an area of significant evolution over the years. Last week, on August 21, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida held that Florida can enforce a law that voids noncompete agreements between doctors and their employers. The recently adopted legislation—section 542.336, Florida statutes—voids...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Although employees won’t be able to receive the benefits of the new Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (“MAPFML”) law until 2021, employers’ obligations under the legislation begin on September 30....By: Locke Lord LLP

Last week, the California Supreme Court ruled that a former start-up employee could not hold his former boss personally liable for unpaid wages based on the theory of common law conversion. Conversion is a legal term for theft. This is a win for...By: Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed Senate Bill 121. This bill has two primary effects: 1. “A provision in any employment contract [(other than a collective bargaining agreement, which is excepted)] that waives any substantive or procedural...By: Blank Rome LLP

Das Justizministerium arbeitet mit Hochdruck an einem Entwurf für ein Unternehmensstrafrecht. Der Entwurf verfolgt das Ziel, die Sanktionierung von Unternehmen und sonstigen Verbänden auf eine eigene gesetzliche Grundlage zu stellen....By: Latham & Watkins LLP

Joining the wave of jurisdictions limiting the competitive restraints employers may place on low-wage employees is Maryland. Maryland’s Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses Act (the “Act”)?which passed without Governor Larry Hogan’s signature...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Amgen will pay $13.4 billion in cash to buy psoriasis treatment Otezla, a deal that will “pave the way for Bristol-Myers Squibb to complete its acquisition of Celgene” by addressing “regulatory concerns over their union”....By: Robins Kaplan LLP