News & Analysis

On November 5, 2015, the New York City Commission on Human Rights (NYCCHR) released its 13-page Interpretative Enforcement Guidance regarding the City's Fair Chance Act (FCA).

It is not a matter of "if" but "when" an employer will be required to notify employees of a security breach.

The new two-year bipartisan budget, signed by President Obama on November 2, 2015, allows (in fact requires) OSHA to raise its citation penalties for the first time in 25 years.

On October 21, 2015, Governor Cuomo signed into law five bills that will provide greater protection for women in the workplace.

Obscenities alone—even when viewed by an employer's customers—do not deprive employees engaged in protected concerted activity of the NLRA's protections.

The DOL's recent guidance on employment status under the FLSA could have significant immigration implications.

On October 6, 2015, the District of Columbia Council introduced legislation that would establish a universal paid leave system for all DC residents and workers who are employed in DC but live elsewhere.

Recent class actions have claimed that companies have violated California consumer fraud and unfair competition laws resulting from alleged forced labor in their global supply chains.

New legislation rewrites the definition and rules governing the payment of piece-rate compensation in California

In its 2015 regular session, California's Legislature’s Democrats passed the vast majority of bills they supported.