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Following on the heels of a much publicized incident in high school athletics, the New Jersey Division of Rights ("DCR") issued enforcement guidance ("Guidance") clarifying and explaining discrimination based on hairstyles, "with a particular focus...By: Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

GDPR requires businesses to be transparent, fair, and proportionate in how they collect process and store personal data. Many in compliance and the business world fear, though, that it also severely hampers the way in which business can conduct...By: Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics

While courts have generally interpreted the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) as providing anti-discrimination protections to individuals performing services as independent contractors, effective in January 2020, amendments to the NYCHRL...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

The NLRB under the current administration continues to issue decisions that factor in legitimate business considerations of employers when evaluating rules that are alleged to restrict employee protections under the NLRA....By: Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Timecard rounding is a tricky area of employment law. Employers like rounding because it streamlines timekeeping and payroll; employees like it because it gives them the chance to get paid for time they did not actually work (think of the employee...By: Faegre Baker Daniels

Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, bringing you up to speed on the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of occupational pensions.? Please see full article below for more information....By: Allen & Overy LLP

In recent months, New Jersey’s Department of Labor has ramped up its efforts to crack down on employers misclassifying workers as independent contractors rather than employees. While employees in certain situations request being engaged as an...By: Cole Schotz

Can leaders recover from a mistake? How should leaders handle their mistakes? In this episode, I am diving headfirst into my proven 3-step process leaders should follow if and when they make mistakes. How leaders handle their mistakes will determine...By: Thomas Fox

On September 30, 2019, OSHA issued a final rule for Occupational Exposure to Beryllium and Beryllium Compounds in Construction and Shipyards. Rather than revoke the ancillary provisions for these two industries as anticipated, OSHA “determined that...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

A new California law, Senate Bill 142 (“SB 142”), effective January 1, 2020, expands on existing Labor Code requirements for employee lactation accommodations and provides significant new consequences to employers for non-compliance. Under...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.