Insights

In one decision and one rule, the National Labor Relations Board issued two major changes that will greatly impact employers. The first, Purple Communications, 361 NLRB No. 126 (2014), reverses the Board’s prior ruling...

On December 29, 2014, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill eliminating employers’ obligation to provide annual wage notices to employees under the New York Wage Theft Prevention Act.  This change will take effect...

(Updated as of April 24, 2015) The California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (“DLSE”) recently published Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) regarding California’s new paid sick leave law (AB 1522).  These...

On September 30, 2003, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit joined the rest of the federal circuits and the California Supreme Court in holding that employers may require pre-dispute agreements to arbitrate Title...

Under current California law, employers with 50 or more employees are required to provide two hours of sexual harassment training to all supervisors within six months of the individual’s assumption of a supervisory position...

On September 10, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (A.B. 1522) into law, making California the second state, after Connecticut, to require private employers to...

In August 2014, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. joined a growing list of jurisdictions that place limitations on an employer’s ability to obtain information about an applicant’s criminal history.  These laws are often...

The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (NJDCR) recently amended the “Discrimination in Employment” notice to add pregnancy as a protected category.  (See article previously reported on this site, “Roundup of Recent...

As previously reported here (see “New York City Council Amends and Expands Earned Sick Time Act“) the New York City Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) is scheduled to go into effect on April 1, 2014.  The law...

On February 26, 2014, the New York City Council amended the New York City Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) to, among other things, expand its coverage to employers with five or more employees. The law, as amended, will take...