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Mass Deportation of Immigrants: What are Your Rights When ICE Arrives at Your Workplace?
November 27, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to resume and intensify deportation efforts when he returns to office. That announcement has sparked a wide-range of reactions from staunch support to vehement opposition.
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The NLRB Overturns Decades-Old Precedent by Banning Captive-Audience Meetings
November 25, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board made the inevitable official when it recently held that employee attendance at employer-mandated meetings where employers express their views on potential unionization – violate the National Labor Relations Act.
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Massachusetts: Department of Family and Medical Leave Issues Important PFML Updates
November 21, 2024
The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (Department) has issued its annual report and other important updates that require employer action. Here is what employers need to know.
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California Has Expanded Workplace Protections for Victims of Crimes
November 19, 2024
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill No. 2499, which shall take effect on January 1, 2025, and expands employee protections for taking time off work if an employee or their family member is a victim of certain crimes or violent acts.
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Texas Court Strikes Down DOL Overtime Rule
November 18, 2024
Late last week a federal district court in Texas struck down the Department of Labor rule that was set to increase the salary thresholds again for exempt white-collar executive, professional and administrative employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Minnesota: New Laws Taking Effect on January 1, 2025 and Employment Law Considerations following the 2024 Presidential Election
November 18, 2024
There are a number of laws going into effect on January 1, 2025, that will have wide-reaching ramifications for Minnesota employers. The following is a summary.
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Overtime Salary Hike Struck Down
November 15, 2024
Justice doesn’t usually move fast, but it did this time.
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NLRB GC to Seek Broad Remedies for Non-Compete and Stay-or-Pay Provisions – Part II
November 15, 2024
As we noted in Part I of this special two-part blog, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued an important policy memorandum last month. Here, Part II addresses stay-or-pay provisions, the GC’s legal position that such provisions are presumptively unlawful, and the remedies she will seek for employees subject to stay-or-pay provisions.
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India: November 2024 Employment Law Updates
November 14, 2024
Updates from Worklaw® Network India member King Stubb & Kasiva
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NLRB Finds Captive Audience Meetings Illegal
November 14, 2024
Relying on Babcock & Wilcox Co., 77 NLRB 577 (1948), employers have long been using so called “captive audience meetings” to express their view to employees regarding unionization.
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Update on FLSA Salary Hike
November 13, 2024
On Friday, November 8, 2024, a Texas federal judge heard arguments in the case of Texas v. U.S. Department of Labor, challenging the DOL’s regulation raising the salary threshold for the white-collar exemptions to the overtime requirements of Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Missouri: Voters Approve Paid Sick Time and Increasing the Minimum Wage
November 11, 2024
In the November 5, 2024 General Election, Missouri voters approved Proposition A by a vote of 58% to 42%.
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