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Q: Over the summer, I saw that President Trump tweeted that four minority Democrat congresswomen should “go back” to where they came from. What Human Resources lessons can be learned from the President’s tweet?...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

Jury Finds Retail Giant Suspended and Failed to Accommodate Longtime Deaf Employee With Visual Impairment - MADISON, Wis. - Late yesterday, a jury determined that Walmart violated federal law when it refused to accommodate the disabilities of a...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Continuing its recent conservative approach, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a divided Board ruled Thursday that an employer’s policies restricting employees from answering media inquiries and discussing customer information with third...By: Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, PLC

On July 23, 2019, the Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of an age-discrimination complaint against a bank where the bank’s internal investigation revealed that the plaintiff violated its code-of-ethics policy....By: Dickinson Wright

Helicopter Maker Racially Harassed Workers, Federal Agency Charged - PHILADELPHIA -- Sikorsky Global Helicopters, a Stratford, Conn.-based manufacturer of helicopters for commercial and military use, violated federal law when it subjected a class...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The Canadian federal election is just around the corner—Monday, October 21, 2019 (Election Day). The Canada Elections Act sets out the law regarding employees’ voting entitlements on Election Day, as well as employer obligations. ...By: Littler

As employers with operations in California had feared, Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 51, which effectively outlaws mandatory arbitration agreements with employees—a new version of a bill that prior Governor Jerry Brown had vetoed repeatedly...By: Epstein Becker & Green

Seyfarth Synopsis: U.S. District Court in New York issued a nationwide injunction blocking the implementation of USCIS’ final rule on inadmissibility on public charge grounds, which rule resulted in significant changes to two widely used USCIS...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

On September 12, 2019, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in ZB, N.A. v. Superior Court, which resolved a split of authority regarding whether an employer may compel arbitration of an employee’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”)...By: Orrick - Global Employment Law Group

Our Corporate and Government Contracts attorneys often counsel contractors interested in acquiring an entity with a clearance or assets used on a classified contract. The clearance is a consideration in the transaction that cannot be overlooked....By: PilieroMazza PLLC