New England Biz Law Update

The much-anticipated SECURE Act 2.0 became law late last month, giving all Americans new and enhanced retirement savings tools. SECURE 2.0 was included in the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill and is follow-up legislation to the original SECURE Act (Setting ...

In a busy season for the agency, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) just issued three more decisions. In the case of Sunbelt Rentals, Inc., the NLRB decided to let stand the bright-line standard used by employers when they question employees ...

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is targeting one of the most contested trends in the workplace: employee monitoring. In October, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo asked the NLRB to apply Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act to ...

One recent TikTok “day in the life” video showed someone complaining about their co-workers, supervisors, customers, etc. while at the office. Watching it revealed the potential legal exposure it unintentionally created. With that, here are four tips for managing use ...

As Benjamin Franklin once said, “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” At their core, Franklin’s words ring true today, but there are more things we can predict with good certainty given our access to data. Employers can get a ...

With increasing regulatory scrutiny and litigation by employees against employer sponsored group health plans, now would be a good time to find out if your employer-sponsored group health plan is compliant with behavioral health parity rules. In 2008, Congress passed ...

Many employers are under the false impression that, by simply calling someone an independent contractor or giving them a “1099,” they can avoid myriad employment-related costs and obligations. But this is not the case, and misclassifying an employee as an ...

When used effectively, artificial intelligence, or “AI,” can eliminate much bias in decision-making. However, when misused, AI may actually promote the same bias it should thwart. Generally, employers use AI in the workplace through supervised machine learning (SML) during the ...

Given some evidence that an employer’s proffered reasons for firing a former employee could be construed as pretextual, a lawsuit alleging that the termination was made in retaliation for the employee’s complaint about workplace racial discrimination can go forward. While ...

For executives involved in Massachusetts construction projects, the routine pay applications that are exchanged in the ordinary course of business must now receive their utmost attention — as any failure to reject a pay application in strict accordance with the ...