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Since 1982, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) has interpreted the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) to prohibit employers from denying non-employee union organizers access to those parts of the employer’s private property...By: McCarter & English, LLP

The New York City Council’s Committee on Civil Service and Labor has proposed a bill that would require New York City employers with five (5) or more employees to provide paid vacation time to their employees. Indeed, if passed, the bill would update...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the new recreational cannabis bill, which contains extensive provisions regarding the extent of an employer’s right to ban and otherwise discipline employees for cannabis use.  The legislation...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The New York Legislature on June 19, 2019 unanimously passed expansive new protections for protected classes and special protections for employees who have been sexually harassed through a new bill — S.6577. According to its sponsor, Senator...By: Dechert LLP

Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Brendan Shannon granted mechanic’s lien claimants $1.6 million for making a substantial contribution in a case by “demonstrably and materially facilitating the process of reorganization.” In re M & G USA Corp., No. 17-12307,...By: Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld this week a key component of administrative law that tells judges to defer to an executive agency’s interpretation of its own ambiguous regulation. Kisor v. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, No. 18-15...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ford announced major cuts to its European workforce yesterday, announcing that it would reduce its overall headcount there by 1/5 (or about 12,000 workers), roughly half of whom are salaried employees. Ford first revealed the cuts in broad strokes...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

Overturning prior PTAB precedent, the Federal Circuit has now held that post-facto business mergers that create a new real-party-in-interest (“RPI”) trigger the one-year bar date for filing IPR petitions on patents asserted in litigation against the...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

In Gables Construction v. Red Coats, 2019 Md. App. LEXIS 419, Maryland’s Court of Special Appeals considered whether a contractual waiver of subrogation in the prime contract for a construction project barred a third party – a fire watch vendor hired...By: White and Williams LLP

The principal regulators of US employee benefits have recently published updates to their guidance plans for the coming months. On May 22, 2019, the US Department of Labor (DOL) published its Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda, stating the...By: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP