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200 State Street
11th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02109, United States
Phone: (617) 523-6666
Fax: (617) 367-3125
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25-50 Attorneys
The Rhode Island General Assembly recently enacted several amendments to existing employment laws that will impact employers immediately and into 2026. These changes include expanded anti-discrimination protections, new…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
On Friday, June 13, 2025, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision in Miele v. Foundation Medicine, Inc., SJC-13967, holding that forfeiture clauses tied to non-solicitation agreements were definitively…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court held that majority group plaintiffs do not have to meet a higher evidentiary standard than minority group plaintiffs to support their discrimination claims under federal law. In Ames v. Ohio…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
On May 20, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced the opening of its 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection. EEO-1 Component 1 reports provide workforce demographic data, specifically the…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
On April 23, 2025, The Trump administration issued Executive Order (“EO”) 14821, entitled, “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” aimed at eliminating disparate impact liability in all contexts, including…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
The first two months of the Trump administration saw a flurry of Executive Orders targeting private and public sector diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) programs, and March has been no different. On March 19, 2025, the…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
The Trump Administration and Republican Attorneys General have signaled that private sector employers could expect to be targets of enforcement measures seeking to eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (“DEI”…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Recent appellate court action has activated a new handbook requirement affecting New York employers. Initially, a lower court issued an injunction blocking certain provisions of the 2019 New York State Reproductive Health Bias…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to terminate two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) commissioners, multiple EEOC offices have informed MBJ attorneys that their respective offices are…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an array of executive orders in an effort to dramatically reshape immigration policies in the United States. These new policy directives are likely to result in a renewed focus…
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/ Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
Employers do not need to meet a heightened standard of proof to establish an exemption from the minimum wage and overtime requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in E.M.D Sales, Inc…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
As of February 1, 2025, covered employers under the Massachusetts pay transparency law, Chapter 141 of the Acts of 2024, will for the first time have to submit copies of EEO data reports to the Commonwealth. The Massachusetts…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On December 10, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Endurance Environmental Solutions, LLC, 373 NLRB No. 141 (2024), a case in which it reconsidered and reestablished the standard against which an…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
A change to the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law went into effect November 21, 2024, that expands the permissible usage of earned sick time to include care for an employee or the employee’s spouse in the event of pregnancy…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction to block the new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) overtime rule that would have expanded overtime eligibility for…
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/ Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
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