New England Biz Law Update

Companies are throwing their weight behind LGBTQ causes. Nearly 500 companies — including Deloitte, Pfizer, Molson Coors, Nestlé, and Amazon — have signed on in support of the Equality Act. In February 2021, the House of Representatives passed the Equality ...

A federal judge denied a request by several employees at the largest hospital system in Massachusetts for an injunction to block the company from placing them on unpaid leave for violating the system’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. But the judge on ...

Now that the FDA has removed the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and fully approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the risk of legal exposure diminishes by the day. That begs questions: What do employers need to know about this recent development? ...

The Employee Retention Credit is expiring at the end of 2021, so there is limited time remaining for companies to claim it if they haven’t already. The IRS and Treasury Department recently issued a delayed guidance focusing on the extension ...

For years advocates for collegiate athletes’ rights have argued that there should be compensation allowed for their participation in intercollegiate athletics. At the very least these advocates have insisted that the athletes should be able to benefit from the use ...

There is no denying that time has moved particularly fast over the past year and a half. In the world of employee benefits, the law has changed, adapted and been updated in a multitude of ways to move with the ...

A new federal rule that requires health care employers to take certain steps to protect their workers in settings where suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients are treated has raised concerns.  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration published the emergency temporary ...

There’s been a buzz about post-pandemic work environments – establishing hybrid work models, using new collaboration tools, and finding ways to engage and connect that build a meaningful and satisfying organizational culture. While reading a recent article – “A Once-in-a-Lifetime ...

Is your law firm or business planning a holiday party this season? As labor and employment attorneys, lawyers at my firm have often been called on to advise employers about the dos and don’ts of corporate parties — how to ...

Is your business information secure? Now that many employees are out of the office and working from home, cybersecurity takes on a new dimension with a workforce environment never before imagined. “On the one hand it’s great we have all ...