California’s legislature covered a wide array of labor and employment law topics in the 2024 legislative session. This Insight includes highlights of some of the new laws affecting employers doing business in the Golden State.
The new year is just around the corner, and that means that employers in California need to prepare for a host of new labor and employment law obligations that go into effect on January 1, 2025.
It's very important that you be aware of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or the FCPA. In many countries, payments that might be viewed simply as “business as usual” may fall under the Act.
On April 17, 2024, the Oregon Court of Appeals recognized a government employee’s whistleblower claim under state law against a city that employed him under an intergovernmental agreement with another city.
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.
The Supreme Court resolved a circuit split on February 8, 2024, when it issued its opinion holding that a whistleblower need not prove that the employer acted with “retaliatory intent” in order to obtain the protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
In the first major action of 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with a publicly traded global software company for alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
