With the enactment of the Colorado Privacy Act, Colorado now joins Virginia in transforming the first major state privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, from an outlier into what now appears to be the beginning of an inevitable trend.
In O’Reilly v. ClearMRI Solutions Ltd., 2021 ONCA 385, the Ontario Court of Appeal decided that the motion judge erred in concluding that a majority shareholder of an employee’s contractual employer was its common employer.
Arizona recently expanded provisions of the Arizona Civil Rights Act to cover pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions. Additionally, cities in Arizona on their own passed new ordinances that expands protected categories and coverage.
In a decision issued on June 25, 2021, the NLRB held that an employer’s challenge to a ballot signature raised substantial and material issues as to whether the ballot was cast by an eligible employee.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a Second Circuit decision which held that retirees could receive money damages in the form of recalculated benefits in a class action over how the company’s cash balance pension plan calculated lump-sum benefits.
The Irish government has recently announced plans to give employees the right to statutory sick pay (SSP) for the first time. Up to this point, employers have had full discretion to decide whether or not to provide sick pay.
