Labor/Employment
Some law firms have already furloughed employees, cut salaries or laid off employees in response to the Covid crisis, and many others likely have austerity…
By the end of March, hundreds of companies worldwide had announced “drastic cuts” to the pay of senior executives…
At a time of unprecedented stress in many sectors of the economy, some employers are looking to unpaid leaves of absence and furloughs as a…
Businesses are confronting escalating drug use in the workplace by their employees. Underlying this problem is the use of marijuana lawfully prescribed by physicians for…
Several states, led by California, have enacted significant employment laws in 2019. These new statutes will likely require employers to make significant changes to their…
With the ongoing trade war between China and the United States, a number of U.S. companies are gradually shifting their business operations to set up…
In order to protect a trade secret, you first have to be able to establish that it is a secret, and that means demonstrating that…
The final rule regarding joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act, issued late last month by the National Labor Relations Board and scheduled to…
Injuries and deaths aside, worker productivity is beginning to take a hit. According to one study, it decreases by two percent for every degree Celsius…
When four workers at New York’s sprawling Hudson Yards development project were injured in a scaffold collapse a few weeks ago, one New York newspaper…