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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...
Nicholas Fortuna, February 29, 2016 Chipotle was sued by seven former female managers for discrimination. They alleged that Chipotle favored male mangers and that was the reason they were fired. Chipotle...
Diana Uhimov, February 23, 2016 The Compassionate Care Act (CCA) was signed into law in New York in 2014, making New York the 23rd state in the U.S. to legalize medical...
Paula Lopez, February 9, 2016. The Women’s Equality Act (“WEA”) went into effect on January 19, 2016. The WEA is a combination of five bills signed into law by Governor Cuomo...
Diana Uhimov, January 7, 2016 On December 19, 2015, the New York City Commission on Human Rights announced that the city’s Human Rights Law would establish among the strongest protections in...
Paula Lopez, December 4, 2015. Recently, New Jersey’s appellate court ruled that an arbitration provision contained in a company’s employee handbook, the receipt of which was electronically acknowledged by its employees,...
Nicholas Fortuna, November 13, 2015 On September 28, the Ninth Circuit ruled that eyewear retailer, Luxottica, cannot require its employees to waive representative actions for violations of the Labor Code under...
Paula Lopez, October 23, 2015. As noted in a previously posted blog dated May 12, 2015, New York City passed the New York City Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act (“SCDEA”),...
By: Megan J. Muoio, October 19, 2015 On September 19, 2015, three trade groups representing the home care industry filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court, seeking a stay of...
Nicholas Fortuna, October 7, 2015 The National Labor Relations Board has been actively changing long-standing legal precedent to be more employee friendly. Recently, the NLRB has issued a spate of high-impact...