New England Biz Law Update

An in-house lawyer at Eastman Chemical Co. is leading the charge to correct a glaring lack of gender diversity among inventors. Michelle Bugbee co-chairs the Women Inventors Subcommittee for the Intellectual Property Owners Association. At its annual meeting in September, ...

A government rule that threatens forfeiture of 4 percent of a company’s annual worldwide revenues would seem a sure bet to grab every business leader’s attention. But a new survey finds that many companies in the U.S. and abroad have ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule that would allow employers that do not take a “tip credit” to establish a pool to be shared between workers who receive tips and are paid the full minimum wage and ...

A Whitman DoorDash driver must arbitrate a class action complaint alleging that the online food delivery dispatcher violated state law by failing to pay him minimum wage and overtime, a federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled. In December 2017, Darnell ...

Undergraduate and graduate students at private colleges and universities who perform services for financial compensation in connection with their studies would not be entitled to collective bargaining rights pursuant to federal labor law under a rule recently proposed by the ...

The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave has issued clarification on when 1099-MISC workers should be included in a business’s workforce count and whether the business needs to report them for the purposes of the paid family and medical ...

California forum selection clauses in preliminary agreements for the acquisition of an eyewear company bound a non-signatory buyer that stepped in and purchased the target before the original deal could be closed, a U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts has ...

A federal judge in Boston has issued orders banning a Rhode Island home security installation company and its founder from telemarketing in partial resolution of a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging the defendants directly and through their agents called more ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has begun the collection of payroll data broken down according to the sex, race and ethnicity of employees following the Trump administration’s loss of a legal challenge to reporting requirements adopted under President Obama. ...

The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave has issued its final regulations for the landmark paid family and medical leave law the state enacted last year. The department promulgated the new rules to clarify procedures, practices and policies in ...