John P Furfaro

December 02, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In their Labor Relations column, John P. Furfaro and Risa M. Salins of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom review recent decisions from the Labor Department's Administrative Review Board on whistleblower protections and an Interim Final Rule from OSHA that seeks to improve handling of SOX whistleblower complaints and implement Dodd-Frank amendments to SOX protections.

By John P. Furfaro and Risa M. Salins

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February 02, 2007 | New York Law Journal

John P. Furfaro, a partner at the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Risa M. Salins, an associate at the firm, summarize recent legislative developments in New York and New Jersey -- including the Garden State's recognition of civil unions -- which provide for key changes in the workplace and highlight some of the steps that employers will need to take to be in compliance.

By John P. Furfaro and Risa M. Salins

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June 05, 2009 | New York Law Journal

John P. Furfaro, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Risa M. Salins, an associate at the firm, review U.S. Supreme Court rulings from this term regarding the enforceability of a collective bargaining agreement provision requiring arbitration of claims under antidiscrimination statutes, application of Title VII's anti-retaliation provision to an employee who participates in an employer's internal investigation, the ability of a local union to charge nonmembers a fee for national litigation expenses, and enforceability of a state law barring payroll deductions for political activities.

By John P. Furfaro and Risa M. Salins

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January 31, 2002 | New York Law Journal

M ore than 16,000 charges of age discrimination were filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in its last reporting year. (See Charge Statistics from the U.S. E.E.O.C., available at http://www.eeoc.gov/stats; last modified Jan. 18, 2001). With age discrimination claims on the rise and layoffs continuing at many firms hit by the recession, employers should be aware of their potential liability under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. ��621- 34, particularly when corpora

By John P. Furfaro And Maury B. Josephson

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April 01, 2005 | New York Law Journal

John P. Furfaro, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Maury B. Josephson, a principal in the Law Office of Maury B. Josephson, look at the issue of whether general arbitration agreements allow for class arbitration proceedings and the implications of including express class-action preclusion language in arbitration agreements.

By John P. Furfaro and Maury B. Josephson

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August 07, 2009 | New York Law Journal

John P. Furfaro, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Risa M. Salins, an associate at the firm, analyze high court decisions regarding whether discarding test results which appeared to disparately impact minorities constitutes unlawful reverse discrimination; the appropriate burden of proof for disparate treatment claims under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act; whether common law waiver of plan benefits is effective under ERISA when the waiver is inconsistent with plan documents; and the proper standard for determining whether a federal court has jurisdiction to compel arbitration under �4 of the Federal Arbitration Act.

By John P. Furfaro and Risa M. Salins

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October 07, 2005 | New York Law Journal

John P. Furfaro, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Maury B. Josephson, a principal in the Law Office of Maury B. Josephson, review the new rules affecting employers under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act, including loosened requirements on engaging third parties to investigate workplace issues and regulations on the proper disposal of sensitive consumer report information.

By John P. Furfaro and Maury B. Josephson

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April 04, 2002 | New York Law Journal

H eightened attention to concerns about workplace security and financial impropriety will likely generate renewed focus on the permissible extent to which employers may use polygraph and other lie detector tests. This month`s column will discuss the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 (EPPA), 29 U.S.C. ��2001-2009 (2002), and its limits on the use of polygraphs in employment situations.

By John P. Furfaro And Maury B. JosephsonThe Employee Polygraph Protection Act

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June 02, 2006 | New York Law Journal

John P. Furfaro, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, reviews recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the area of labor and employment law, including one ruling that the employee-numerosity requirement for establishing that a defendant is an "employer" covered by Title VII must be asserted prior to trial on the merits and another holding that a �1981 plaintiff must identify injuries from a racially motivated breach of his own contractual relationship, not of his corporation's.

By John P. Furfaro

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February 01, 2008 | New York Law Journal

John P. Furfaro, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Risa M. Salins, an associate at the firm, review the recent decision in Guard Publishing, where the National Labor Relations Board ruled on whether there is a statutory right to use a company e-mail system, which labor groups argue has become a "gathering place" for communications on work and nonwork issues, to organize employees and engage in concerted activities protected by �7 of the National Labor Relations Act.

By John P. Furfaro and Risa M. Salins

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