Employment

As wise employers focus strategic initiatives to enhance diversity and inclusion in the workplace, we periodically receive questions about limitations for proactive approaches in this area.

Non-disparagement provisions are commonplace in today’s settlement and separation agreements, with employers often seeking the broadest protection against disparagement.  A recent decision from a New York federal court, however, suggests that such provisions may have their limits in connection with wage and hour settlement agreements.

My colleague, Sue Foster, is out with a quick, but important post on our sister blog, Privacy and Security Matters, about a European Court of Human Rights decision that approved employer access to personal employee communications under limited circumstances.

My colleague Patricia Moran, was quoted in the Bloomberg BNA article entitled Cadillac Tax Isn’t Being Sent to the Junkyard Yet in which she advises employers on strategic use of the two-year delay of the Affordable Care Act’s Cadillac tax. The article examines the implications of the delay and the likelihood that the tax is repealed.

If you follow my corporate divorce series, you are familiar with my affinity for the employment-as-marriage metaphor.  I’ve already examined how employment relationships end or should end.

Last month, a district court in Wisconsin dealt a blow to the EEOC and the future of its proposed ADA wellness program regulations.

At the end of last year, a federal court in Massachusetts found that a forum selection clause in an Iowa company’s standard form service-provider agreement did not apply to claims asserted under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Massachusetts Wage Act (Wage Act).

Happy New Year from your friends at the OFCCP.  This week brings the enforcement of requirements stated under Executive Order 13665, which prohibits federal contractors from discriminating or otherwise conducting adverse personnel actions against employees or job applicants for compensation inquiries, discussions or disclosures.

Being a headliner is great but nothing beats being tapped as the opening act. Join me and my panel of corporate counsel and human resources professionals as we warm up the audience at Mintz Second Annual Employment Law Summit.

Non-compete agreements are a common part of the business world these days.

In this volume, we have collected the 24 weekly blog posts that comprise the series entitled, “The Affordable Care Act’s Reporting Requirements for Carriers and Employers.” The series appeared in the Mintz Levin Employment Matters blog during the latter-half of 2015.

My colleague Tyrone Thomas, was quoted in the Law360 article entitled College Player Compensation Issue Rages on Despite Reforms in which he analyzes the impact of education-based reforms made by several NCAA conferences may have on existing legal matters that are challenging the amateurism model of college athletics.

When it comes to telling their employees about certain benefits, many employers have for decades (since 1974 to be exact) flouted a particular provision of the law with impunity.

While we were in the midst of office holiday parties and end of the year celebrations, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals came down with two precedential decisions for employers to ponder in the New Year.

While Americans everywhere were busy eating turkey and drinking eggnog last November and December, our government was hard at work attending to budget matters.  Tucked among the appropriations were several fairly significant items of interest to employers, employees, providers, administrations, and all manner of benefits aficionados.

New York City just finished off a strong year on the employment law front. The City Council passed laws that banned the box and all but eliminated credit checks.

My colleague Alden Bianchi, was quoted in the Inside Counsel article entitled Delay in Implementing Cadillac Tax Raises Questions on Health Insurance, in which he examines the cause of the delay, its impact on large employers and carriers and the implications the tax holds for Congress if repealed.

By now, many of you have heard about our firm’s Second Annual Employment Law Summit in New York on Thursday, January 28th.  The event features a keynote address by Carmelyn P. Malalis, Commissioner and Chair of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and it also covers a variety of current employment-related topics.

Happy New Year to all of our readers!!!  This is just a friendly reminder that our Second Annual Workplace Law Summit is quickly approaching.  It will take place on January 28, 2016 in midtown Manhattan.

This post concludes our half-year series of posts focusing on the Affordable Care Act’s reporting requirements. These requirements are challenging in the extreme.