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La Plenaria del Senado de Colombia el 17 de junio de 2025, aprobó en cuarto debate el proyecto de reforma laboral. La iniciativa pasará ahora a etapa de conciliación y aprobación final en ambas cámaras antes del 20 de junio...more
On January 18, 2023, the Competition Bureau published draft enforcement guidelines on wage-fixing and no poaching agreements, inviting interested parties to provide their comments no later than March 3, 2023. The draft...more
James Gregory, Batool T. Banker, and Taryn E. Cannataro of Lowenstein’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice lay out tips for negotiating a fulsome executive employment agreement for both new hires and existing...more
Nelson Mullins is continuously monitoring trends and state law changes regarding restrictive covenants in employment agreements. Several states have recently enacted or modified legislation that may significantly restrict an...more
With effect from 1 August 2022, the German Act on Proof of the Essential Working Conditions (Nachweisgesetz – “Act on Proof”) will undergo the most comprehensive reform since it entered into force in 1995. The government...more
In Nader v. University Health Network, 2022 ONSC 447, the court examined the language of a secondment agreement and concluded that the plaintiff-employee was not a fixed-term employee of the organization to which he was...more
2019 brought a number of important changes in the law that warrant the attention of New York employers. Start off the new year right and ensure your calendars are up to date by including the 2020 effective dates of these New...more
As sophisticated employers know, an employer must track and comply with developments not only in federal law, but also state and local law. This blog post details key changes in employment laws in the Commonwealth of Virginia...more
Provisional Measure # 905 (“PM”), published on November 12, 2019, establishes a new type of labor relationship in Brazil. The PM aims to reduce the alarmingly high unemployment rate affecting younger workers in the country,...more
They say the only thing in life that is constant is change, and we certainly saw that in 2019. This was a big year for change in employment law as legislators, courts, and regulators, shaped the workplace to reflect societal...more
In our previous blog we wrote about California’s Assembly Bill 51, which largely impacts arbitration agreements by prohibiting employers from requiring employees or applicants for employment to agree to arbitrate claims for...more
Last week, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill (AB) 5, a new law related to an issue that is critically important to California employers and service providers—whether a worker is classified as an employee or an...more
On July 11, 2019, Governor Sununu signed S.B. 197 into law. S.B. 197 prohibits an employer from requiring an employee who makes 200% of the federal minimum wage ($14.50) to sign a non-compete agreement restricting the...more
La Consulta ha dichiarato l’illegittimità costituzionale dell’articolo 3, comma 1, del D.Lgs. 4 marzo 2015 sul contratto di lavoro subordinato a tutele crescenti, nella parte in cui determina in modo automatico - in funzione...more
Some employers like the concept that employees must repay a bonus if the employee is no longer employed as of a certain date. This may be permissible in Germany, but only under narrow circumstances. On June 27, 2018, the...more
The Tennessee coaching search has produced high drama over the past two weeks. For Vol fans like myself, it has felt at times like absolute torture and at other times like just a little bit of torture. While things seem to...more
The Ontario Court of Appeal recently upheld a lower court’s dismissal of an employee’s claim for payment of a bonus after resignation because the employer’s non-discretionary bonus policy included an “active employment”...more
Specialists have long touted certain significant advantages to employers that come along with maintaining ERISA severance plans, and a recent district court case highlights some of these advantages....more
Employers should take note of a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a case involving the arbitration clause in an independent contractor agreement....more
This month’s key California employment law cases involve arbitration and PAGA issues. Arbitration - Farrar v. Direct Commerce, Inc., 9 Cal. App. 5th 1257, 215 Cal. Rptr. 3d 785 (2017) - Summary: Arbitration...more
Lack of communication – contractual dismissal notice only took effect when received - In Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood the Court of Appeal has decided that contractual notice of dismissal only took...more
Hiring parties should review their current contracts with freelance workers in New York City to ensure compliance with the new bill. The New York City Council has passed, and Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed, a bill with...more
Regardless of where a company is headquartered, it likely contracts with one or more independent contractors who live or work in New York City. If your company does so, take note. On November 16, 2016, Mayor de Blasio signed...more
With all the hubbub over the Presidential election, it would not be hard to overlook some of the Obama administration’s final moves. Recently, the White House issued a call to action to state legislators to ban non-compete...more
Many employers have rested long and easy in the knowledge that the National Labor Relations Board would not consider them to be joint employers with entities such as franchisees, staffing agencies, and contractors unless they...more