Virginia’s new noncompete law — effective July 1, 2026 — bans noncompete agreements if an employer terminates an employee without cause and does not provide severance benefits or other monetary co...

In May 2025, Kuochun Hung, the chief operating officer of the Taiwanese media outlet Watchout, received an email from someone purporting to be Yi-Shan Chen, a well-regarded local reporter. “Chen” ...

Last week, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed into law SB 170, which applies to employees who were terminated and not offered severance unless they were terminated for cause. The new law expa...

What’s Happening at Rogers? Rogers Communications is offering voluntary buyouts to half of its 25,000-person workforce in April 2026. “We are taking steps to adjust our cost structure to reflect t...

On April 20, the Ontario government introduced Bill 105, Protecting Ontario’s Workers and Economic Resilience Act, 2026 (the POWER Act) for first reading. This legal update summarizes elements of t...

On April 1, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) titled “Whistleblower Incentives and Protect...

On March 3, 2026, Governor Ned Lamont signed Senate Bill (SB) 298 into law, ushering in significant new standards applicable to warehouse workers and logistics operations in Connecticut. Quick Hit...

For decades, employment relationships in space were limited to a small cohort of government astronauts operating within specialized federal frameworks. That paradigm has shifted with the commercia...

On April 21, the Ontario government introduced Bill 105, Protecting Ontario’s Workers and Economic Resilience Act, 2026 (the POWER Act) for first reading. This legal update summarizes elements of t...

When Secretary of State Marco Rubio was a U.S. senator, he was like a hero to one diplomat who was struck with Havana Syndrome while serving the U.S. in China back in 2018. The New York Post spoke...