New England Biz Law Update

A mainstay of employment-based litigation – non-compete agreements – is on the proverbial chopping block. Earlier this year, New York State Assembly passed Bill S3100A. This bill would amend the New York State Labor Law (NYLL) by adding a new ...

Quiet quitting is a trend that emerged last year as employers struggled to fill vacant positions after the Great Resignation, and as the economy picked up post-pandemic. Quiet quitting is the term used to describe when an employee psychologically disengages ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a proposal to revise the regulations relating to the white-collar exemptions from overtime and minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the DOL proposed ...

Any employers muddling through the current labor shortage probably have already seen dozens of articles with advice on how to best attract, incentivize, and retain employees. A simple Google search will yield hundreds of hits exhorting the benefits of an ...

The vast majority of private and many nonprofit entities will be swept into the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) compliance net. If you or your clients are an investor or have investors, you need to pay attention. Not only is reporting ...

Now more than ever, people are basing their employment decisions on benefits, with many placing a higher value on affordable health care and well-being perks than they do on salary. So, to attract and retain top talent, businesses need to ...

Work performed by contractors is among the most dangerous in the country, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of the 5,190 fatal work injuries reported in 2021, 951 happened in construction and extraction occupations. Workers file claims because ...

These days there is no shortage of scam calls, phishing e-mails, and bad actors trying to steal what’s yours. They’ve managed to creep into every corner of our business and personal lives – our computers, our phones, our front porches, ...

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Groff v. DeJoy significantly heightens the standard for determining whether a religious accommodation causes “undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.” Employers should take note of the change and modify policies ...

Plaintiffs are filing suits against AI developers at a quick pace, arguing that AI really creates nothing new but merely reads and copies billions of other peoples’ protected works from the internet. Using these works, and in reaction to a ...