Labor & Employment

The National Law Review provides readers with news coverage and issues, involving working and labor and employment law in the United States, and how it affects employers, employees, major corporations and executives throughout the country.  Current trends like whistleblower protection and employees' rights concerning disclosure of information about their corporate employer or government employer if the employer is engaged in illegal activities and protection for employees concerning retaliation due to whistleblower complaints.

The National Law Review offers in-depth analysis of some of the major federal agencies/governing bodies that impact employer/employee relationships.  Analysis of the make-up of the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) as well as analysis of the major decisions coming from that board are covered by the legal experts at the National Law Review.  Additionally, news and guidance, as well as staffing changes at the Department of Labor are also covered and analyzed, with legal experts providing insight into what has happened, and what might happen as a result.  Updates from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and their interpretations and guidelines on specific regulations related to worker safety, like the Silica standard, are also covered by NLR. 

Changes in employment law based on state developments, and issues that impact employer procedures in hiring and interviewing hiring, such as how ban the box legislation impacts hiring as well prohibitions against asking about previous salary levels, and employer reviews sites like Glassdoor are covered by the National Law Review.  As states and cities pass and amend employment-related legislation, the National Law Review carefully analyzes the implications of these changes to provide background information for companies seeking to stay compliant.

Some of the subjects covered on the site include employment and compensation agreements, employment violations in the workplace, non compete and arbitration agreements, the #MeToo Movement and sexual harassment, sex-discrimination cases, employee handbooks and policies, wellness programs, and how to properly train employees, especially given the number of employment-related lawsuits and EEOC enforcement actions. are addressed by the National Law Review

Readers can also learn about employment agreements in areas including the use of personal email accounts, electronic devices, and email/internet policies in the workplace. With data and security being a hot-topic in recent months, the National Law Review has the latest details about data protection policies, encryption, and data security and employee privacy rights within organizations. Topics like pay equity/gender pay gap issues, affirmative action disputes, civil rights actions, business immigration laws, disability accommodations, ERISA policies, unfair competition, workplace privacy, whistleblower lawsuits, wrongful termination, and trade secrets, are all cases and stories visitors will find on the National Law Review website.

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Mar
1
2018
Second Circuit Becomes the Second to Prohibit Sexual Orientation Discrimination Mintz
Mar
1
2018
One Minute You’re In, The Next, You’re Out: NLRB Vacates the Short-Lived Hy-Brand Decision and Reinstates the Browning-Ferris’ Joint Employer Standard Dickinson Wright PLLC
Mar
1
2018
How Could So Many Get This Supreme Court Case Wrong? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Feb
28
2018
Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split on Scope of Whistleblower Protections Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
28
2018
NY/NJ Port Authority Implements New FCA Policy Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
28
2018
100 Days Until GDPR … Are You Ready? Vedder Price
Feb
28
2018
PAGA Claim Defeated Based on Insufficient Notice to the LWDA Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
28
2018
Supreme Court Narrows Corporate Whistleblower Protections Under Dodd-Frank Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Feb
28
2018
California Court of Appeals Holds Labor Code § 558 Claims Are Indivisible Claims and Not Arbitrable Jackson Lewis P.C.
Feb
28
2018
Sixth Circuit: Union Acted Properly When Continuing to Collect Dues After Employees Failed to Follow Dues Checkoff Revocation Protocol Polsinelli PC
Feb
28
2018
Employers Required to Post Transgender Rights in the Workplace Posters Jackson Lewis P.C.
Feb
28
2018
Second Circuit: Title VII Covers Sexual Orientation Discrimination Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Feb
28
2018
Second Circuit Rules Anti-Gay Discrimination is Sex Discrimination Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Feb
28
2018
Second Circuit decision could support ECOA protection for sexual orientation Ballard Spahr LLP
Feb
28
2018
Measure Aimed At Reducing Frivolous ADA Public Accommodation Suits Passes House (US) Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
28
2018
Holiday plans delayed! – but only for SAYE payment holidays… Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
28
2018
Picked Off? Baseball Players Union Files Grievance Against MLB Teams Regarding Revenue-Sharing Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Feb
28
2018
NLRB Returns to Browning-Ferris Test for Joint Employment Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
28
2018
Dodd-Frank Whistleblowers: Supreme Court Holds Internal Complaints are Not Enough Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Feb
28
2018
NLRB Vacates Hy-Brand Decision Returning to BFI Joint-Employer Standard . . . For Now Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Feb
28
2018
10th Circuit Reverses Grant of Summary Judgment on SOX Whistleblower Claim Proskauer Rose LLP
Feb
28
2018
Supreme Court Declines to Review California’s Halt of DACA Rescission Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Feb
28
2018
SCOTUS Rules Dodd-Frank Does Not Protect Internal Whistleblowing Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
28
2018
Practical Guidance on the GDPR – Part 7 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
28
2018
Businesses Should Re-examine Consumer Contracts After Pennsylvania Supreme Court Allows Unfair Trade Practices Claim By Out-of-State Plaintiff Faegre Drinker
Feb
28
2018
Kansas City, Missouri, Jumps on the “Ban Wagon,” Passes Ban the Box Ordinance Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Feb
28
2018
The Split Deepens: 2nd Circuit Holds that Title VII Bans Sexual Orientation Discrimination Ballard Spahr LLP
Feb
28
2018
NLRB Reinstates Browning-Ferris Joint-Employer Standard . . . For Now Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Feb
28
2018
NLRB Invites Comments on Employee Misclassification – Employment Law This Week Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Feb
28
2018
Is Employee Consent Under the GDPR Possible? Jackson Lewis P.C.
Feb
28
2018
#MeToo Legal Impact Remains Unclear Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Feb
28
2018
UK Health and Safety Offences – No Two Cases Are The Same Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
28
2018
Singapore: Key Employment Trends for 2018 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Feb
28
2018
NLRB: Changing Winds Blow in Favor of Health Care Employers Foley & Lardner LLP
Feb
27
2018
The Fiduciary Rule Prohibits Commissions... or Not (Myth #6): Interesting Angles on the DOL’s Fiduciary Rule #81 Faegre Drinker
 

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