Legal Ethics Roundup: Chesebro Disbarred, 40.8% Tax On Lawyers & Lit Funders, DOJ Whistleblower Calls Out Bove & More - Above the Law
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U.S. Department of Labor Reinstates Policy Prohibiting Seeking Liquidated Damages in Pre-Litigation Settlement of FLSA Wage Claims (US) - Employment Law Worldview
On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL” or the “Department”) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2025-3, in which it prohibits Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) field staff from seekin...
Read moreNearly 200 Sylvan Canada Workers Removed From NextStar’s Windsor Plant - Samfiru Tumarkin LLP
NextStar Energy (NextStar) reportedly asked nearly 200 Sylvan Canada workers on June 26 to “immediately demobilize” from its electric vehicle (EV) battery facility in Windsor, Ontario. Eric Farron...
Read moreFlorida on Verge of Enacting Employer-Friendly Non-Compete Law - Law and the Workplace
Florida lawmakers recently passed the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act (the “Act”), which would create a presumption that covered...
Read moreTrump Administration Says Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law - Law360
The Trump administration on Monday informed Harvard University that it had run afoul of federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus from harassment, and... ...
Read morePart Two: Comparison of the Employment Rights Bill 2024 and the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth): similarities, impact on employers and possible lessons to be learnt from the Australian experience - Lexology
This article is the second part of a three part series which discusses similarities between the Australian Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FWA) and Employment Rights Bill 2024 - 2025 (ERB) in Great Brita...
Read moreNon-Compete Agreements in Health Care: A Rapidly Evolving Legal Landscape - Lexology
In the wake of the Federal Trade Commission’s recently failed attempt to ban non-compete agreements between employers and workers,[1] individual states have once again taken up the mantle of furthe...
Read moreSCOTUS Limits Courts’ Power to Issue Broad Injunctions, Raising More Questions than Answers for Employers Nationwide - JD Supra
In a decision sure to have reverberations for employment law for years to come, the Supreme Court just significantly limited the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide injunc...
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Government Contracts Enforcement: DOJ Publishes Fiscal Year 2025 False Claims Act Statistics - Mondaq
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has published its statistics on False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgments for fiscal year (FY) 2025, revealing an unprecedented, record-breaking year for...
