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The prevalence of remote working arrangements has led to an increase in new and nuanced legal questions for employers to consider. One of these questions is how employers should count their remote workers when seeking to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN).
Read the entire legal update, “WARN Act counting…
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Despite the fact that the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime regulations were set to go into effect on December 1st, the validity of the regulations remains unsettled. We previously reported that on November 22nd, Judge Amos Mazzant of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted a nationwide injunction precluding…
On August 22, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit joined the Seventh Circuit in finding that an employer violates the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by requiring employees to sign an agreement including a class arbitration waiver.
In Morris v. Ernst & Young, plaintiffs were required to sign “concerted action…
