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North Carolina’s Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act (REDA) prohibits employers from taking retaliatory action against employees on the basis of workers’ compensation, OSHA, wage and hour, and other state labor law complaints. Like Title VII...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

The California Legislature is currently working on new laws that will go into effect next year.  Indeed, Governor Newsom has already begun to sign some legislation into law (see, for example, the CROWN Act)....By: Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

A recent decision from the Colorado Court of Appeals clarifies that employers can limit the payment of accrued but unused vacation time at separation from employment and that forfeiture is not a violation of the Colorado Wage Claim Act (CWCA)....By: Ballard Spahr LLP

On May 7, 2019, the California Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Wilson v. Cable News Network, Inc., et al., where plaintiff was a producer at CNN who sued the media giant for employment discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and...By: Nossaman LLP

New law passed on the adaptation of German data protection law to the GDPR - Following the amendment of the Federal Data Protection Act ("BDSG") in 2017, on 27 June 2019 the German Bundestag passed a second act to adapt the highly fragmented German...By: White & Case LLP

Financial institutions M&A sector trends: specialty finance/marketplace lending — H1 2019 and outlook for H2 2019. CURRENT MARKET - Upward, marginal. WE ARE SEEING: - Market consolidation across product lines - Foreign inbound M&A (particularly...By: White & Case LLP

As discussed in our prior alert, employers are now required to submit additional information to supplement EEO-1 reports. The deadline to submit this new information – which will include employee pay data (referred to by the EEOC as “Component 2”)...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

New Jersey recently joined a growing number of states, including Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma and Rhode Island, that afford certain job protections to employees and...By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Last week, President Trump made headlines when he tweeted that “‘progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen … originally came from countries” that were “totally broken and crime infested,” and that they should “go back” to the “places from which they came.”...By: Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

On July 17, the IRS issued Notice 2019-45 (the Notice), expanding the concept of preventive care to certain services and items that target specific chronic conditions, such as testing strips and insulin for diabetes. As high-deductible health plans...By: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP