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Paula Lopez, July 29, 2016. In Smith v. Millville Rescue Squad, the New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the trial court’s dismissal of an employee’s discrimination claim based on marital status, finding...

Date: June 22, 2016, Megan J. Muoio In June 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released the report of its Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in...

Nicholas Fortuna, June 17, 2016 On May 11, 2016 President Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), which is an expansion of the Economic Espionage Act. The law...

Paula Lopez, June 3, 2016. On May 23, 2016, the Supreme Court decided Green v. Brennan, resolving a circuit court split on when the statute of limitations begins to run on...

By: Megan J. Muoio, May 26, 2016 On May 18, 2016, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of Labor will be finalizing a new rule expanding the payment of overtime...

Paula Lopez, May 13, 2016. Earlier this month, a split three-member NLRB panel affirmed the December 24, 2015 administrative law judge’s decision invalidating a class and collective action waiver contained in...

Nicholas Fortuna, April 28, 2016 This week, Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) which is an expansion of the Economic Espionage Act. The legislation had wide bipartisan support and...

Nicholas Fortuna, March 23, 2016 On March 16, 2016 the Second Circuit ruled that the human resources director of The Culinary Institute of America could be held personally liable for Family...

Paula Lopez, March 11, 2016. New York City’s Council has been active in passing legislation that impacts the workplace and imposes new legal obligations on New York City employers.  This week,...

  By: Megan J. Muoio, March 7, 2016 Currently pending before the Supreme Court is Green v. Brennan, a case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit that...