New England Biz Law Update

In December, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments related to Gov. Charlie Baker’s emergency regulation banning the sale of nicotine vaping products. Baker’s administration had appealed an Oct. 21 order of the state Superior Court, which had allowed ...

A financial advisor who claimed she was subjected to gender discrimination and retaliation by UBS Financial Services and its market manager in Boston, James E. Ducey, has been awarded $1,633,019 following arbitration. Christine Carona was awarded damages, attorneys’ fees, and ...

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 ...

Federal lawsuits have been filed challenging the emergency four-month ban in Massachusetts on sales of e-cigarette products. Vapor Technology Association and some of its member retailers filed suit in U.S. District Court on Oct. 1, days after three vape shops sued Gov. ...

Massachusetts has a new law enabling public sector unions to recover costs associated with representing non-members after the state Legislature completed an override of Gov. Charlie Baker’s veto of the so-called Janus bill. The state Senate voted 39-1 on Sept. 19 to ...

The Cadillac Lounge strip club in Providence, Rhode Island, has agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle a lawsuit brought by dancers who said the club violated federal fair labor standards by failing to pay them minimum wage. The Providence ...

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 ...

On Aug. 23, the National Labor Relations Board reversed precedent and rebalanced the rights of property owners versus the Section 7 rights of employees in a labor dispute. In Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation d/b/a Tobin Center for the ...