It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years — and this past month was no exception. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes, here is a quick review of the top stories from last month that all employers need to know about:
A pendulum-swinging decision from the National Labor Relations Board on February 21 means that severance agreements – in both unionized and non-union workplaces – could once again be deemed unlawful if they could be construed to broadly restrict a worker’s rights to speak about the agreement or otherwise talk negatively about their former employer, among other things. While several Trump-era rulings permitted employers to include confidentiality provisions and non-disparagement clauses in severance pacts, the ruling in McLaren Macomb wiped those decisions off the books – thereby jeopardizing any agreements including them. How should you change your standard severance agreement practices thanks to this setback, what should you do about existing agreements, and what does this decision signal for the future? Here are the answers to your nine most important questions.
President Donald Trump made multiple false claims in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, though he largely stuck to a prepared text. Here is a fact check of some of his ...