New England Biz Law Update

In the past, it was sufficient for employers to have a simple social media policy. An employer could essentially bar employees from using company devices to post nonwork-related content on social media and mandate that work-related posts be business appropriate. ...

Tesla supervisors at a Florida service center violated federal labor law by barring employees from talking about pay and other working conditions and bringing complaints to higher level managers, an NLRB Administrative Law Judge has ruled. In late 2021, employees ...

Three bills intended to help close the pay gap for women and minorities have been introduced in Congress. The measures were introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who was also the first woman ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is expected to propose a rule that would allow third-party worker advocates to take part in facility inspections. Workers at nonunion facilities would have the right to designate a representative to take part ...

The U.S. Department of Labor is expected to propose a new overtime rule in May. Once the new rule has been announced, stakeholders will have an opportunity to comment before it’s finalized. Analysts are widely predicting an increase to the ...

In February, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in McLaren Macomb, establishing that severance agreements with overly broad confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions violated Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (the Act). The decision raised many ...

A disabled employee can no longer perform their job, even with accommodations. Is that employee entitled to other positions in the company, ahead of more qualified candidates? The EEOC says yes, but some federal courts disagree — including the U.S. ...

SECURE Act 2.0, enacted at the end of 2022, has ushered in significant changes for retirement plans. While many changes are mandatory and will be handled by your third-party administrator, one optional provision should get leadership consideration: matching retirement contributions ...

If employees are failing to meet productivity quotas, a new ruling from a federal appeals court says that employers can go ahead and dock their paid time off (PTO). The opinion from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals only ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have entered into an information sharing agreement to better protect American workers from issues of worker surveillance, data collection, and “employer-driven debt.” While the two agencies have ...