New England Biz Law Update

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Aug. 2 vetoed a bill that would allow unions to charge non-union employees fees for representing them in certain labor disputes, challenging the state House and Senate to override him in order to restore a ...

A company could not be held liable for disability discrimination when it was not aware of the medical condition of a former employee who brought suit, a U.S. District Court judge in Rhode Island has held. The plaintiff, David Saad, ...

A $143 million settlement has been reached to resolve all the class action lawsuits over damages stemming from the Sept. 13 natural gas explosions in Andover, Lawrence and North Andover, Massachusetts, Columbia Gas and its parent company NiSource announced on ...

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. ...

By enacting M.G.L.c. 112, §87A 3/4, the Massachusetts Legislature intended to preempt the common-law doctrine of in pari delicto as it applies to the negligent conduct of accountants and auditors in failing to detect fraud, the state Supreme Judicial Court ...

On June 14, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a 3-1 decision that employers may prohibit non-employee union representatives from conducting organizing activities on employer property that is open to the public. UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, 368 NLRB No. 2 ...

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 ...

On May 7, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making to implement the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.  The bureau’s stated purpose for the proposed rules, which would be placed in the existing Regulation F, is to ...

On June 3, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Fort Bend County, Texas vs. Davis that Title VII cases can proceed in federal court even if employees fail to first bring their claims before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or ...

A federal judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit brought by three former Mount Ida College students against former school president Barry Brown and the now-shuttered school’s board of directors. U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns threw out the ...