When drafting employment separation or severance agreements, it is relatively common to include non-disclosure and non-disparagement provisions in the documents. The notion is that in return for ...

Washington, D.C. employers will not need to scrap all their non-compete agreements after all. On July 12, 2022, the D.C. Council (the “Council”) passed the Non-Compete Clarification Amendment Act...

It’s Summer 2022 – and life is back to normal? Or is it? While inflation remains high, the labor market remains tight. The Department of Labor’s most recent job report shows that 372,000 jobs wer...

Riverview Farms Inc., a cannabis cultivation operation, has agreed to a settlement of $825,000 after a class action lawsuit accused the company of violating wage-and-hour requirements. Class memb...

A Treasury Department watchdog report finds a software flaw led to the agency failing to collect $472 million in debts owed to over 28 agencies. The July 7 audit from the Treasury inspector gener...

After months of negotiations with city workers, labor representatives, the mayor’s office and more, Richmond City Council could act on collective bargaining legislation for city employees as soon...

Amid a contentious and rapidly spreading effort to organize Starbucks coffee shops around the country, workers at locations in the Chicago area and Peoria say the company has violated federal lab...

How do we learn how to respond? Are all responses appropriate? If a person you pass along the street says, “Hi, how are you doing?” — is the appropriate response to actually stop and give an hour-...

A San Francisco health care and rehab facility must face allegations that it underpaid its union-represented workers and failed to provide them with meal and rest breaks, a California federal judg...

Browse through brief employment and labor law updates from around the globe. Contact a Littler attorney for more information or view our global locations. New Law for Employment of Currently or F...