Trump-Era Independent Contractor Rule Reinstated. In a decision issued on March 15, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas reinstated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL)...

It’s only been two weeks since President Biden signed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (the “Ending Forced Arbitration Act”) into law (which we co...

Everyday Russians may not have asked for the war in Ukraine, but they’re paying the price just the same. In a space of less than a month, Russia has become a global pariah. The U.S. and a host of...

It is a well-known fact that alcoholism causes problems in personal relationships, but what many people don’t realize is that it can also lead to employment law issues. In this article, we will e...

As California’s April 1, 2022 pay data reporting deadline approaches, we are dealing with many questions about when remote employees, teleworking employees, and traveling employees must be includ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul hasn’t yet signed a wage board’s recommendation to decrease the number of hours for farm workers to qualify for overtime to 40 per week. We have written several times that this ...

week. 10 Most Mentioned Firms1. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP2. DLA Piper2. Hogan Lovells2. Jones Day5. White & Case LLP6. Kirkland & Ellis LLP7. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LL...

Two top executives of the Housing Development Agency (HDA) are being investigated for corruption, collusion and interfering with supply chain management processes after whistleblowers blew the li...

On February 28, 2022, the Ontario Government introduced the new “Bill 88, Working for Workers Act, 2022” which would amend the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA”) and, amongst other things, re...

A lawsuit filed be a former Google employee on Friday alleged that the company engaged in systemic bias against Black employees and maintains a corporate culture that favors white males. The suit...