New England Biz Law Update

A bill that would essentially ban noncompete agreements has been introduced in both the House and Senate. The measure comes in the wake of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recently announced proposal to eliminate noncompetes except in limited situations. Under ...

The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a guide to help employers manage wage-and-hour laws for remote employees. The bulletin addresses the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), lactation accommodations, and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Break time for ...

Female detention officers are asking a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit over gender-based scheduling practices. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals convened en banc to review precedent that requires individuals alleging Title VII discrimination to show that ...

The Department of Labor (DOL) has unveiled its regulatory agenda for 2023. Among its priorities is exploring whether additional regulatory guidance is necessary to manage and boost participation in pooled employer plans (PEPs). PEPs are a type of retirement savings ...

Pay transparency laws are becoming increasingly common, and employers with workforces spread over multiple states are trying to figure out how to contend with a patchwork of similar — but not identical — provisions. The latest effort to close systemic ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that noncitizen workers who claim that their rights as employees have been violated can now use a streamlined deferred action request process. Deferred action is intended to protect workers from threats of ...

The EEOC recently held a public hearing to examine the use of automated systems, including artificial intelligence (AI), in employment decisions. Increasingly, employers are using automated systems to make employment decisions, including the recruitment, hiring, monitoring, and firing of workers. ...

A federal investigation has found that a contractor’s failure to provide legally required safeguards and make sure they were in place to prevent trench collapses contributed to the 2022 death of an employee who was buried when an 8-foot-deep trench ...

An employer should not have been granted summary judgment on claims for unpaid overtime because a lower court failed to use relational analysis to determine whether claimants were “administrative” employees exempt from the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the 1st ...

A federal judge has tossed the retaliation claims of three remaining plaintiffs suing Whole Foods for allegedly discriminating against employees who supported the right to wear Black Lives Matter facial masks in the workplace. Plaintiffs Savannah Kinzer, Haley Evans and ...