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USA - February 7 2011
In a decision that will affect both unionized and nonunionized private-sector employers, the National Labor Relations Board (the "Board") has held that the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") prohibits employers from discharging an employee to prevent the employee from discussing concerns about wages with other employees.
USA - January 26 2011
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and from retaliating against employees because they have opposed an unlawful practice under Title VII or participated in an investigation or proceeding under Title VII.
USA - December 15 2010
Reflecting a growing trend among states to adopt enhanced penalty and enforcement provisions in their wage-and-hour laws, on December 13, 2010, New York Governor David A. Paterson signed into law the Wage Theft Prevention Act (the “Act”).
USA - December 10 2010
The Employee Free Choice Act, the proposed federal legislation that would make it easier for unions to gain the right to represent groups of employees, failed to gain the Congressional momentum needed for enactment, but the policies it promoted are not necessarily dead.
USA - November 10 2010
On November 9, 2010, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") published its long-delayed final regulations interpreting the employment-related provisions of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act ("GINA"), a federal law that went into effect for employers on November 21, 2009.
