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No Common Employer Means No Class Action—Ontario Court of Appeal

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The Ontario Court of Appeal has concluded that a client's influence over a service provider's processes does not establish an employment relationship between the client and the service provider's employees. The plaintiffs in...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

Employer Victory in Motion to Compel Arbitration

On May 19, 2025, Proskauer attorneys successfully compelled to arbitration an employment discrimination lawsuit that had been filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court. While the former employee claimed that she never signed...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

D.C. Circuit Erases NLRB Joint Employer Order After Google-Cognizant Contract Lapses

The D.C. Circuit’s April 22, 2025 decision offers an important lesson on joint-employer cases under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “Act”): without an ongoing contractual relationship, the dispute can vanish in a...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Equitable Estoppel Can Be Invoked By a Non-Signatory Joint Employer to Compel Arbitration

Tell me if you have heard this one before: ten companies are sued by a former employee as “joint employers”, even though the employee technically worked for, and signed a binding arbitration agreement with, only one of them....more

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Recent Court Ruling Teaches Florida Employers 5 Key Lessons to Avoid Joint Employer Troubles

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A federal court in Florida recently ruled that a company was not the joint employer of an aggrieved worker who was trying to drag it in as an additional party to his discrimination lawsuit. The court’s January 29 decision...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

SuperVision - Labor & Employment Insights, Issue 4, December 2023

Attacks on Non-Disclosure, Confidentiality, and Non-Compete Agreements in 2023 - On several fronts in 2023, we saw federal agencies and entities attacking the scope and enforceability of certain employment agreements,...more

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Web Exclusive: January 2020: The Top 14 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Federal Appeals Court Expands Joint Employer Liability Theory For Agricultural Employers

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A federal appeals court just announced a sweeping change for agricultural employers that will make it easier for workers to bring discrimination claims against them under a joint employment theory. In last week’s EEOC v....more

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