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Although there are times when both parties agree on the need to perform destructive tests on an object, when the parties disagree, the party seeking the destructive tests must justify its request. In Doerrer v. Schreiber Foods, Inc., et al., No....By: White and Williams LLP

California legislators are tweaking language in a proposal to exclude employee or job applicant data from the State’s landmark privacy law slated to take effect in January. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants consumers the right to...By: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Happy holiday weekend! With the Fourth of July approaching, we will go out with a bang. How much do you know about employment law in the news from this week or so? Take our quiz and find out! As always, the answers appear immediately after each...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

New York State is on its way to enacting comprehensive reforms to broaden the scope of its discrimination and harassment laws, including one of the most robust anti-harassment bills in the #MeToo era, amendments to the State’s Equal Pay Act to...By: Akerman LLP

The task of securing company networks and systems is no longer delegated solely to an organization’s IT department. Human resources plays an equally important role in protecting company data. The authors of this article explain how human resources...By: Blank Rome LLP

New York State is on its way to enacting comprehensive reforms to broaden the scope of its discrimination and harassment laws, including one of the most robust anti-harassment bills in the #MeToo era, amendments to the State’s Equal Pay Act to...By: Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Following its Boeing Company decision, the National Labor Relations Board continues to issue advisory opinions regarding the legality of common employer policies under the National Labor Relations Act. The policies are reviewed as to whether they...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

A federal court in Manhattan has invalidated New York's statewide prohibition against provisions in employment agreements that require the mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims. In its June 26, 2019 decision in Latif v. Morgan Stanley &...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Shareholder Representative Services LLC v. RSI Holdco, LLC, C.A. No. 2018-0517-KSJM (Del. Ch. May 29, 2019). This decision confirms that, in a post-merger dispute between an acquirer and the selling stockholders, broad contractual language can...By: Morris James LLP

In the final hours of their 2019 legislative session, New York State lawmakers unanimously passed omnibus legislation (“Legislation”) that builds on the state laws enacted in 2018 in response to the #MeToo movement. See S.B. 6577, 2019-2020 Reg....By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP