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Imagine that your company has just commenced an internal compliance investigation in response to an allegation that the company is violating various federal laws. The next day, a longtime employee with access to the company’s crucial trade secrets is...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

Prior to the advent of social media and especially the #MeToo movement, employers were generally comfortable drawing a bright line between what employees did on their own time and workplace misconduct....By: Cozen O'Connor

The ECB was even more aggressive than expected in its moves to “head off a downturn before it gained momentum,” cutting a key interest rate and reviving “a money-printing program.” At the same time, the central bank “issued an unusually strong call...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

Colorado employees are pushing back against the recent decision allowing use-it-or-lose vacation policies in Colorado. In Nieto v. Clark’s Market, Inc., 2019 COA 98 (Colo. App. June 27, 2019), a division of the Colorado Court of Appeals held that...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

The EEOC announced yesterday, September 12, 2019, that it “is not seeking to renew Component 2 of the EEO-1” in a notice published on the Federal Register....By: Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Are you familiar with PAGA? Do you have a PAGA claim for unpaid wages filed against you right now? If yes, this recent California Supreme Court case may apply to you. (ZB, N.A. v. Superior Court)....By: Stokes Wagner

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued two 3-1 decisions this week, continuing a string of rulings favoring employers over unions or workers. Details on the decisions follow. ...By: Ballard Spahr LLP

EEO-1 filers must submit EEO-1 Component 2 (compensation and hours worked) data for years 2017 and 2018 by the deadline of September 30, 2019. However, on September 12, 2019, the EEOC announced that it does not intend to require EEO-1 filers to...By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

What a colossal waste this has been. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a Notice, published in yesterday's Federal Register, proposing that it will not seek to collect employers' compensation data (aka "Category 2" data) after the...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Showing, again, that workplace gossip can get you sued. I really feel that the employer will win this case, for reasons I'll discuss below, but first . . . A federal judge has said that starting malicious rumors that a male employee is a...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP