New England Biz Law Update

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 ...

While the Family and Medical Leave Act allows covered employees to take qualifying leave for their own or a family member’s serious health condition, it does not protect an employee from all issues related to performance and absences from work, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that calls into question a 1977 precedent that addresses when employers may reject employees’ religious accommodation requests. Under the Court’s ruling in Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, an employer may ...

Employees could no longer require employees to sign noncompete agreements under a rule proposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The proposal, which is being regarded as a historic regulatory move, comes over a year after President Joe Biden issued ...