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On August 12, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to modify three parts of its election procedures. This rulemaking would amend the Board’s blocking charge policy, voluntary recognition bar rule...By: White and Williams LLP

Providing an up-to-date report card on boardroom gender diversity in California’s largest publicly traded companies, Orrick recently released a study on the state of compliance with a new law mandating at least one female director by the end of this...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

We recently published a client alert concerning pending New York State legislation expanding worker protections under the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL). On August 12, 2019, Governor Cuomo signed that legislation into law....By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The State of New Jersey has passed several laws in the wage-hour area that are definitely pro-employee, to say the least. The latest effort on this front is something quite special, or onerous, depending on which side you are on....By: Fox Rothschild LLP

It is said that, in real estate, location is everything. Well, it turns out that the same is sometimes true with respect to the enforcement of contracts; it is just as important to choose the location for resolving a dispute as it is to choose the...By: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

In its 84-year history, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB, Board or Agency) has promulgated a very small number of rules pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, relying, instead, on individualized adjudications to establish the Board’s...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: On Friday, August 9, 2019, Governor J. B. Pritzker signed a wide-ranging bill that, among other things, encompasses the Workplace Transparency Act. The Act, which will impact nearly every employer in Illinois: significantly...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Employers may find it easier to remain union-free based on new rules proposed last week by the National Labor Relations Board for bringing unions into and out of the work place....By: Akerman LLP - HR Defense

In the internal battle between keeping China off balance and keeping Wall Street happy, the White House has decided once again to focus on the latter, walking back the latest tariff escalation by postponing promised enforcement until mid-December, a...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

International Construction Arbitration has received a shock. Consistent with the leading textbooks, a party seeking to rely on force majeure in a construction contract did not have to show that ‘but for’ the force majeure event it would have...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP