By Michael Booth | May 18, 2017
A committee of the New Jersey Legislature on Thursday recommended passage of a bill that would codify the state Supreme Court's holding that the two-year statute of limitations for filing racial discrimination claims cannot be shortened in employment contracts or agreements.
By Lizzy McLellan | May 17, 2017
Cozen O'Connor is continuing a slow-motion raid on Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, with the addition of six more lawyers announced Wednesday.
By ROBERT STORACE | May 12, 2017
The prospective class action lawsuit would include advanced practice registered nurses and physician's assistants at Waterbury and St. Mary's hospitals.
By C. Ryan Barber | May 12, 2017
Anthem Inc. is dropping its bid to acquire rival health insurer Cigna Corp., and the company's stepping up the conflict in refusing to pay a $1.85 billion breakup fee. Uber Technologies and San Francisco tax authorities are fighting over public access to driver names and addresses—the latest confrontation between the ride-hailing company and regulators. And the clock expired on a Republican-led bid, through the Congressional Review Act, to void the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's prepaid card rule. This is a roundup of regulatory action.
By Melanie Waddell | May 11, 2017
Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta has made halting the fiduciary rule's June 9 compliance date as a top priority, with published reports saying…
By Erin Mulvaney | May 11, 2017
Uncertainty is a common theme among employers this year thanks, in part, to new technologies, an unpredictable Trump administration and a web of new compliance standards on every government level, according to an annual survey from the law firm Littler Mendelson.
By Erin Mulvaney | May 10, 2017
Mosquitoes now are at the center of a liability question the U.S. Supreme Court could consider for the first time Thursday: Should the Union Pacific railroad company have protected employee William Nami and other workers from the mosquitoes? In a 5-1 ruling, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of the rail company. But courts are split on the issue.
By Erin Mulvaney | May 10, 2017
Mosquitoes now are at the center of a liability question the U.S. Supreme Court could consider for the first time Thursday: Should the Union Pacific railroad company have protected employee William Nami and other workers from the mosquitoes? In a 5-1 ruling, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of the rail company. But courts are split on the issue.
By Michael Booth | May 9, 2017
A union member's state-based disability discrimination and retaliatory discharge claims are not automatically pre-empted by federal labor law merely because a union contract exists, a New Jersey appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
By Lizzy McLellan | May 8, 2017
Cozen O'Connor is keeping up its raid on Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, with the departures cutting deeply into Buchanan Ingersoll's labor and employment group.
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