New England Biz Law Update

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 ...

The registrations of more than 1,600 Wells Fargo agents and supervisors in Massachusetts lapsed over a 30-month period, prompting state securities regulators to hit the company with a $450,000 fine. Secretary of State William F. Galvin reported that an offer of ...

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 ...

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 ...