The Massachusetts Legislature has passed the Act to Establish Pay Equity—a bill that, when enacted, will be one of the most expansive equal pay laws in the Nation.
Pokémon Go has taken the United States and the rest of the world by storm. One of the less-discussed impacts of the game is the effect on the workplace and how employers can respond.
The NLRB has held that an employer must meet a very high level of specificity in a management-rights clause before the Board will find that the union unequivocally waived its right to bargain over the action in question.
The Supreme Court of Canada's recent decision in Wilson v. Atomic Energy confirms that private-sector federal employers must have just cause to dismiss non-managerial employees.
The NLRB has held a union seeking to represent employees in a bargaining unit composed of employees solely employed by a “user employer” and those it jointly employees with a temporary labor provider is not required to obtain the consent of both employers
Since the European Court of Justice declared invalid the Safe Harbor agreement between the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and the European Commission for the transfer of personal data, hundreds of U.S. multinationals have been struggling to find an alternative.
The IRS recently issued proposed regulations under Section 457 of the Internal Revenue Code that prescribe rules regarding deferred compensation plans sponsored by state and local governments and tax-exempt organizations.
On June 27, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the plaintiffs’ petition for a writ of certiorari in Home Care Association of America v. Weil, leaving the DOL's Home Care Rule intact.
