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Female Employee Subjected to Sexual Comments by General Manager, Then Fired Because She Complained, Federal Agency Charged - GREENSBORO, N.C. - BCD Restaurants, LLC, a Greensboro, N.C.-based Zaxby's restaurant franchisee, will pay $30,000 and...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Seyfarth Synopsis: In Ituah, et al. v. Austin State Hospital, a federal magistrate judge in Texas recently recommended the denial of a motion for class certification brought by patients alleging disability discrimination against a state psychiatric...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 1 (January 9, 2020) - The United States Congress ratified the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — also known as NAFTA 2.0 — but included language that may cause problems with Mexican officials. The...By: Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics

As we recently wrote here, on December 29, 2019, just days before California’s new arbitration statute known as AB 51 was to go into effect, a federal judge in the United States District Court of the Eastern District of California granted a temporary...By: Epstein Becker & Green

The CFPB recently released two guides addressing the disclosures required for construction-only and construction-to-permanent loans under the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) Rule.  The Combined Guide and the Separate Guide review how to...By: Weiner Brodsky Kider PC

I get this call pretty frequently. A client wants know whether it should accommodate an employee by allowing the employee to telecommute or work remotely. The answer, in typical attorney fashion, is "it depends." And it does....By: Jaburg Wilk

Noori v. Countrywide Payroll & HR Solutions, Inc., 2019 WL 7183403 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019) - Mohammed Noori sued his former employer for violation of Cal. Lab. Code § 226(a) (setting forth certain very specific statutory requirements for itemized wage...By: Proskauer - California Employment Law

Seyfarth Synopsis: The DOL has published its 2020 increases to OSHA civil penalties. We have blogged previously about the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) annual adjustments to the maximum civil penalty dollar amounts for OSHA violations....By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

On January 6, 2020, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (the “Department”) issued long-awaited regulations regarding enforcement of New Jersey’s Earned Sick Leave Law (ESLL) as well as its responses to comments about the...By: Littler

I. International Case Law - The use of secret video surveillance can be regarded as proportionate - The European Court of Human Rights has re-examined the question whether the installation of hidden cameras in a workplace infringes employees’...By: Dentons