Employment Law This Week®: State Legislation Heats Up, NLRB Overturns...
This Employment Law This Week® Monthly Rundown discusses the most important developments for employers in July 2019. Both the video and the extended audio podcast are now available. This episode...
View ArticleEmployment Law This Week®: Cannabis User Protections, WHD Opinion Letters,...
This Employment Law This Week® Monthly Rundown discusses the most important developments for employers in August 2019. This episode includes: Increased Employee Protections for Cannabis Users First...
View ArticleSupreme Court Holds Defined Benefit Plan Participants Lack Standing to Sue...
In a recent 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court, in Thole v. U.S. Bank N.A., 590 U.S. __ (2020), held that participants in defined benefit pension plans lack standing to sue plan fiduciaries for allegedly...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Lets Stand Ninth Circuit Ban on ‘Salary History’ Defense...
In recent years, wage discrimination has been a hot topic and with it, the question of whether employers may rely on a worker’s salary history to justify a pay disparity between male and female...
View ArticleSupreme Court Grants Rare Hearing on Stays in Vaccine Mandate Cases
On the evening of Wednesday, December 22, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it will hold a special session on January 7, 2022, to hear oral argument in cases concerning...
View ArticleSCOTUS Permits CMS Health Care Vax Rule but Rejects OSHA Vax-or-Test ETS for...
As explained in greater detail by our colleague Stuart M. Gerson, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down two major, and quickly decided, rulings on January 13, 2022. After hearing oral...
View ArticleAddressing Excessive Fee Litigation Risk in the Wake of Hughes v. Northwestern
The Supreme Court’s January 24, 2022 decision in Hughes v. Northwestern University, has caused alarm in some corners, with panicked predictions of a proliferation of ERISA suits alleging that defined...
View ArticleVideo: State of the Union, Federal Task Force Report, Biden’s SCOTUS Pick –...
As featured in #WorkforceWednesday: This week, we’re looking at how employment laws and regulations are being impacted by the Biden administration’s recent actions on the international and national...
View ArticleCourt Limits Federal Jurisdiction Over Arbitration Cases: SCOTUS Today
The Court has decided the latest in a series of important cases interpreting the reach of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U. S. C. §§ 1 et seq. On March 31, in Badgerow v. Walters, by an 8-1...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Abortion Bill Contains Harsh Criminal Penalties for...
Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, state legislatures across the country have accelerated their discussion of new laws either restricting or further...
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