The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court’s decision that a termination clause in an employment agreement was enforceable because it was neither ambiguous nor non-compliant with the Canada Labour Code.
This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal in the last month.
Employers with operations in California are all too familiar with how state and local officials continue to restrict the access employers have to public records, including criminal history information.
On July 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a limited stay and preliminary injunction of the FTC’s final rule that would render almost all non-compete agreements, with very limited exceptions, unenforceable.
Elections took place across the European Union from 6 – 9 June 2024. Every five years, European Union citizens elect their representatives as Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
On July 2, 2024, OSHA released the text of its highly anticipated proposed standard that, if finalized, would create the first federal standard aimed at protecting workers from exposure to heat hazards in the workplace, whether indoors or outdoors.
Long-awaited PAGA reform legislation brings significant change and some clarification to the 20-year-old law, reconciling previously ambiguous interpretations of the law, as well as adding new provisions that will have far-reaching effects.
The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico has determined that claims under the Unjustified Dismissal Act and the Workplace Discrimination Act are transferable to the employee’s heirs following the employee’s death.
