By Mike Scarcella | June 4, 2020
Welcome to Law.com's Labor of Law dispatch, and we hope you are well. On the clock: Fisher Phillips chairman Roger Quillen chats with ALM about the virus era. Plus: a snapshot from Littler's return-to-work survey. Scroll down for Who Got the Work: New covid-19 suits, and other cases. Thanks for reading!
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Elizabeth P. Johnson and Lindsay M. Massillon | June 4, 2020
The final rule, effective 60 days from the date of publication, provides much-needed clarification on this method of compensation that has confounded many employers and resulted in different interpretations by the courts.
By Gregg J. Loubier and Sue Chang | June 3, 2020
As the spread of COVID-19 slows and the pressure to reopen intensifies, states are easing the restrictions of stay-at-home orders and adopting plans to reopen their economies. Every California business and property owner encounters at least two important questions—When can we open our business or property, and what are the rules?
By Amanda Bronstad | June 3, 2020
McDonald's lawyer Jonathan Bunge, of Quinn Emanuel, admitted he was "incensed" that workers didn't raise their concerns with governmental agencies before filing a lawsuit.
By Ben Seal | June 3, 2020
In this Q&A, Roger Quillen discusses employers' shifting legal needs, demand fluctuations and an expected surfeit of employment-related work bigger than his firm has ever seen.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Jeffrey S. Klein and Nicholas J. Pappas | June 2, 2020
Reopening during a continuing pandemic undoubtedly will be accompanied by many employment-related challenges to businesses. In confronting these challenges, employers should institute plans whose touchstones are safety and efficiency in the workplace. This month's Employment Law column, Jeffrey S. Klein and Nicholas J. Pappas address a number of key topics employers will confront as employees return to work.
By Dan Clark | June 2, 2020
"The wave of COVID-19 litigation has begun in haste and poses a real threat to employers, most of whom are already grappling with the economic fallout from this pandemic," Michael Lotito, co-chairman of Littler Mendelson's workplace policy institute in San Francisco, said in the report issued by the firm Tuesday.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 29, 2020
After the lawyers went into closed door discussions, a judge abruptly halted a hearing on Friday morning in which McDonald's employees at four restaurants in Chicago sought a preliminary injunction to fix alleged failures to protect them from COVID-19. In a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed on Thursday, a McDonald's lawyer said the case would "unleash a flood of similar litigation."
By Raychel Lean | May 28, 2020
A lawsuit from a former partner at Florida law firm Shutts & Bowen accusing the firm and two attorneys of civil conspiracy and defamation came before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Valerie Manno Schurr on Thursday, who heard arguments for and against unsealing the complaint and sending the case to arbitration.
By Phillip Bantz | May 28, 2020
Vered Yakovee, who worked for the NBA team for about four years, alleges that she was fired for requesting maternity leave after she adopted a baby. She argued, unsuccessfully, that she was rushed into signing an arbitration agreement when she was hired.
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