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As with the US’s Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Australian Fair Work Act makes it illegal to discriminate against a pregnant employee.
Europe’s highest court, The Court of Justice of the European Union, has just ruled that Italy has failed to fully extend to all disabled employees the necessary protections which the EU Council has held to be consistent with the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Today the European Parliament approved a proposal to delay the issue of 900 million emissions allowances (each representing the right to emit one metric ton of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas equivalent, or CO2e).
On June 3, 2013, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor (DOL), and the Treasury (collectively, the Departments) published joint final regulations in the Federal Register implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirements for wellness programs.
Last week the USPTO announced the launch of the Global Patent Search Network, a database that allows users to search non-U.S. patents in both English and the patent’s native language.
The Visa Bulletin for August 2013 clearly shows that the Family Based Second Preference Category F2A for Spouses and Children of Permanent Residents be current across the board, but according to the new visa bulletin, it is!
A court has upheld the gender discrimination claims of a female police officer in Connecticut who alleged that the female Chief of Police repeatedly referred to her as "that chick cop."
The Supreme Court ruled that a plaintiff asserting retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VII") must prove that the retaliation was the "but for" cause of the employer’s adverse action.
In a July 2, 2013, blog posting on the U.S. Department of the Treasury website titled "Continuing to Implement the ACA in a Careful, Thoughtful Manner," the Obama administration announced that it will provide an additional year before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA) mandatory employer and insurer reporting requirements begin.
On July 2, 2013, the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) affirmed an administrative law judge’s (ALJ’s) finding that the employer, Albertson’s LLC (Albertson’s), unlawfully solicited grievances and implicitly promised to remedy them when its labor relations director met with an employee in an employee breakroom during a union organizing campaign, informed the employee that it was open season for health insurance enrollment and asked if the employee had any questions about the insurance or
Family law judges and lawyers beware that in assigning dependency exemption to a noncustodial parent, Form 8332 releasing the exemption must be secured from the custodial parent.
For employers who presently contribute to a multiemployer defined benefit pension plan, withdrawal liability, the news is not good.
I had some fun six months ago with an Iowa Supreme Court decision that said "an employee who has not engaged in flirtatious conduct may be lawfully terminated simply because the boss views the employee as an irresistible attraction."
The New York Times reports that the President’s comments made two months ago that those who commit sexual assault in the military should be "prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged," have been used by defense counsel in more than a dozen pending cases to seek dismissal of charges because they allegedly constitute an "unlawful command influence."
The U.S. International Trade Commission recently published the final public version of its June 4, 2013, decision, which states that there is nothing in section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 that precludes the Commission from issuing an exclusion order as a remedy, even where the complainant is under an obligation to license its standard-essential patents.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently issued a decision holding that managers of a limited liability company (LLC) could be held individually liable, civilly or criminally, for the payment of employees’ wages.
On June 27, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed Calendar Year 2014 rate update to the Home Health Prospective Payment System.
Last week President Obama announced a package of programs that aim to increase electricity generation and transmission in Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania.
The Obama Administration announced on Tuesday that it is delaying implementing a key component of the Affordable Care Act for a year following complaints from the private sector about reporting requirements.
Carnegie Mellon University ("CMU") filed a motion for attorney fees pursuant to 35 U.S.C. Section 285, seeking attorney fees of approximately $17.2 Million as a prevailing party at the jury trial against Marvell Technology Group ("Marvell") that resulted in a jury verdict of over $1 billion.
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Two recent political deals at both the state and municipal level will increase employer costs and burdens.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation that will raise the minimum hourly wage in New York in three increments, commencing on December 31, 2013.
This may be the final year that the so-called Bush tax cuts remain in effect, unless Congress acts to further extend them.
Late last month, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law new legislation that, among other things, will raise New York's minimum wage to $9 per hour over the next three years.
As many American began to feel the heat of President Obama’s gun control legislation, the Mississippi legislature took steps to further expand gun rights in Mississippi.
Effective January 1, 2013, the Illinois estate tax exemption increased to $4 million, with a maximum rate of 16%.
President Obama has issued a new Executive Order that goes into effect July 1, 2013.
A female employee traveling for her employer met a "friend" and at her motel room with him became "injured whilst engaging in sexual intercourse when a glass light fitting above the bed was pulled from its mount and fell on her."
he final regulations retain the definition of a religious employer, modify the accommodations provided for eligible organizations that object to contraception coverage on religious grounds, and describe how contraceptives will be provided and paid for under both a fully insured and a self-insured group health plan.
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) defines marriage at the federal level as a legal union between one man and one woman and excuses states from any obligation to recognize same-sex marriages recognized in any other state.
