Legal News

In a massive worksite immigration operation early Wednesday, over 600 federal immigration agents converged on seven Mississippi food manufacturing and processing facilities to serve search warrants as part of an ongoing worksite criminal...By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

Apparently, in response to New Jersey’s sanctuary state policies, the Department of Homeland Security (the Department) has increased the number of worksite investigations and inspections. While the Department has not released inspection numbers since...By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

Employees in New York State are likely to see a major expansion of employment rights broadly relating to discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, under an expansive bill passed by the New York Legislature in June and expected to be signed by Gov....By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

Employers in New Jersey and New York City need to review their drug testing policies and employment practices considering laws recently enacted to protect employees (and applicants) who are authorized to use medical marijuana under state medical...By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

On July 25, 2019, active Governor Sheila Oliver signed a law that bans employers from asking job applicants about their salary history. (A similar law was vetoed by former Governor Chris Christie in 2017.) New Jersey joins a growing number of states...By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

Artificial intelligence is a set of code designed to perform specific tasks, including capabilities to rapidly understand and analyze patterns to make judgment calls, predict the future, and draw conclusions. Artificial intelligence can analyze large...By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

Effective April 1, 2019, New York City employers with at least 15 employees (including interns and independent contractors) who have worked more than 80 hours and at least 90 days in a calendar year, must begin providing mandatory sexual harassment...By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.