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Handling References and Referrals While Safeguarding Your Business
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Multijurisdictional Employers, Part 1: Independent Contractors vs. Employees
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 42: Non-Compete Agreements with Mitchell Greggs of Maynard Nexsen
Creativity and Compliance: Innovating Ethics - Creativity in Corporate Compliance with Katie Lawler
Culture Crafters: Preventing and Fixing a Cultural Disconnect
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The Labor Law Insider: Recent U.S. Supreme Court, NLRB Decisions Highlight Labor Issues in Higher Education
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Protecting Trade Secrets When Facing Lawsuits or Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures
Episode 138 -- Employee Relations and Engagement in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
Effective August 6, 2025, SB25-083 will void non-competition and non-solicitation of customer provisions entered into or renewed by doctors, nurses, midwives, and dentists on or after this effective date. Employers who...more
On July 21, 2025, the Constitutional Court, with Judgment No. 118/2025, declared the constitutional illegitimacy of Article 9, paragraph 1 of Legislative Decree 23/2015. With this decision, the court deleted the strict...more
The Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act became law on July 3, 2025, expanding employers’ rights in enforcing non-compete and garden leave agreements with Florida-based...more
The enforceability of noncompetition agreements is a widely debated topic in and outside of the legal world. In just the last year, it has been a repeat topic on the floor of the Washington state legislature. States across...more
Florida lawmakers recently passed the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act (the “Act”), which would create a presumption that covered non-compete and garden...more
On April 24, 2025, the Florida legislature passed the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth, or CHOICE, Act. The CHOICE Act goes into effect on July 1, 2025. The CHOICE...more
On April 8, 2025, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed Senate Bill 241 (SB 241) into law, amending the Kansas Restraint of Trade Act (K.S.A. 50-163). Taking effect on July 1, 2025, this new employer-friendly legislation...more
On June 9, 2025, the New York State Senate passed Senate Bill S4641A (the “Bill”). The Bill, if signed into law, would prohibit most non-compete agreements (“non-competes”) throughout the state, except for those with highly...more
Over the past several years, EmployNews has chronicled multiple legislative, regulatory, and judicial assaults on the use of noncompetition agreements with employees. These attacks have weakened or eliminated employers'...more
A pair of bills were introduced in the New Jersey Legislature seeking to ban or significantly restrict employers’ ability to enter into and enforce noncompete agreements. The proposed legislation (S4385 and S4386) seeks to...more
The New Jersey Legislature is considering a bill (S4385/A5708) banning non-compete clauses, with limited exceptions, and prohibiting no-poach agreements between employers and workers. Appearing to take a page from the now...more
The rules governing the employment relationship are always changing. Laws creating new employer obligations, technology solutions making work more efficient and more complicated, and rules governing the resolution of disputes...more
Following the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed non-compete ban being overturned last year, certain state legislatures remain focused on limiting restrictions on employees. Recently, New Jersey and New York lawmakers each...more
Wyoming just banned most non-compete agreements (Wyo. Stat. § 1-23-108): starting July 1, 2025, most agreements that restrict workers from working in competitive jobs will be void, absent some exceptions for: High-Level...more
Termination of employment contracts is a critical aspect of labor law in both the UK and Poland, ensuring that employers and employees alike are aware of their rights and obligations in the event of contract dissolution....more
Changing an employee's job description during business restructuring can be tricky, especially when balancing business needs with legal requirements. Can human resource managers change an employee’s job description to align...more
On March 17, 2025, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held in Musker v. Suuchi that commissions are included in the definition of “wages” under New Jersey’s Wage Payment Law (“WPL”). Wages under the WPL are defined as...more
The New York Legislature is set to make another attempt to ban non-competes for all but highly compensated individuals. At the end of the 2023 legislative session, the New York Legislature passed a bill that would have banned...more
A recent Tribunal decision in Afshar and others v. Addison Lee Ltd found that the two-year backstop on deductions from wages claims, which has been in force for nearly a decade, was void and the Claimants in that case could...more
The Fourth District held that a motion to compel arbitration is not the correct vehicle to challenge a plaintiff’s failure to plead the individual component of a PAGA claim affirming the Superior Court’s denial of a motion to...more
The Workplace Relations and Safety Minister for New Zealand announced late last year that the government would propose an earnings limit of NZD 180,000 (known as a “threshold”), beyond which employees would not be able to...more
In Karim v. Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, 2024 HRTO 1231, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) dismissed a probationary employee’s claim that they were discriminated against with respect to employment because...more
The Colorado Court of Appeals held that deducting product fees from an employee’s wages unlawfully shifts the burden of an employer’s business costs and reduces an employee’s wages....more
The Supreme Court for the State of Washington issued a decision in David v. Freedom Vans LLC expanding the state’s prohibition against anti-moonlighting covenants for low-wage workers. The court held that employers may not...more
The 2025 Ontario provincial election will take place on February 27, 2025. Voters will elect their Member of Provincial Parliament to represent them at Queen’s Park. In most of the province, polls are open on election day...more