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The Inclusion Movement: A Look at the #InclusionRider Outside of Entertainment

Are these riders, made famous in a speech by Oscar winner Frances McDormand, viable options outside of the entertainment industry?
3 minute read

National Law Journal

How PwC Handled Its First Transgender Employee Transition in the Workplace

"At work I was hiding," Chris Palma says. "I did not get to be my true self."
9 minute read

National Law Journal

Meet the Cohen Milstein Lawyer Behind The #InclusionRider

Frances McDormand endorsed the contractual provisions during the Oscars Sunday night.
9 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Arbitration Bid Blocked in Suit Saying Morgan Stanley Wrongfully Terminated Recovering Addict

A federal judge in Trenton, New Jersey, has denied Morgan Stanley's motion to compel arbitration of a wrongful termination suit, finding room for debate over whether the company's email delivery of the mandatory arbitration policy to employees constitutes notice and assent.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Former Napa County Prosecutor Wins $570K Verdict in Discrimination Suit

In a 9-3 decision, a Napa County jury found the county had discriminated against a former assistant deputy district attorney after he sought accommodations for disabilities.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Bergen Judge Blocks Enforcement of Noncompete Clause Against Fired Masseuse

"Defendants have not made a showing that the non-compete clause is narrowly tailored to ensure the clause is no broader than necessary to protect their interests," Judge Charles Powers said.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth Court Revisits Workers' Compensation's 'Premises Liability'

Normally, work injuries arise when an employee is injured on or off the employer's premises, while actually engaged in furtherance of the employer's business or affairs. Last week, in US Airways v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board Bockelman, No. 612 C.D. 2017, the Commonwealth Court revisited the less common compensability of a workers' compensation claim based on a premises theory of liability.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Citing 'Unusual' Facts, NLRB Asks DC Circuit to Restart 'Joint-Employer' Case

Blame a Trump-appointee's ethical conflict at the National Labor Relations Board for the "joint-employment" whipsaw between the agency and the D.C. Circuit.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Trump's Latest NLRB Pick Vows Not to 'Repeat' Ethics Conflict Dogging Another Member

"I do not want to be in the position Member Emanuel finds himself in and I don't want to put a cloud over the NLRB," Morgan Lewis partner John Ring, a Trump nominee to the NLRB, told a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Doctors: Partnership Merger Deal Will Turn Us Into 'Indentured Servants'

On Dec. 19, 2017, a group of New York physicians filed a verified complaint in the U.S. Supreme Court of the state of New York County of Westchester, challenging their partnership's merger with a large hospital practice. The physicians challenging the merger claim that the deal will reduce them to “indentured servants.”
6 minute read

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