In their law practices, attorneys can regularly handle sensitive patient information that's protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Lawyers have a duty an...

On Feb. 7, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a California law prohibiting public employers from discouraging union membership or dues deduction authori...

Yesterday, without first holding an open meeting, the SEC posted proposals related to changes in beneficial ownership reporting and changes to the whistleblower program. In the press release annou...

On Dec. 1, the Department of Labor published a proposed rule that would amend its regulations regarding certain provisions of the H-2A program. Among the many changes in the proposed rule are rev...

employers in matters spanning from union relations to retirement benefits to its labor and employment team in the Pacific Northwest. Douglas S. Parker joined the 23-person team as a shareholder F...

Where federal employee alleged that he had been injured on the job and that injuries were exacerbated by medical malpractice at VA hospital, employee was entitled to sue under FTCA because Departm...

Where a party is held out as an employee and performs necessary course-of-business work on behalf of a company, the location where he performs this work is considered that company’s place of busin...

Jane Turner is a whistleblower and highly decorated 25-year veteran Special Agent within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The first woman named the head of an FBI resident agency, Turner...

On February 7, 2022, the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment issued a report recommending, among other things, increased coordination among agencies working on labor and e...

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