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Employers in New York state are now prohibited from obliging employees to take their case to arbitration if they have a sexual harassment complaint, and also to apply a “gagging order” on the affected employee if a settlement is made …

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In a potentially highly controversial move, America’s largest retailer Walmart has patented surveillance technology to collect conversations and other sounds at checkouts …

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The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as the next judge to join the nine-member US Supreme Court could have some implications for employers if accepted by the House and Senate …

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A major mistake that employers can make in the USA is not to have a correct system in place for “I-9 compliance” …

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Following the landmark Supreme Court case concerning mandatory arbitration and the prevention of class actions (Epic Systems Corp …

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The new Equal Pay Act in Massachusetts does not go so far as in New Jersey because it only relates to gender as a basis for pay equality, but it still underlines the importance of a factor-based job evaluation scheme to determine whether equal pay has been achieved …

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The US trend of banning the requesting of salary history has now reached Hawaii …

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A new equal pay law has taken effect in New Jersey that prohibits employers from paying employees in a “protected class” lower than any one not in a protected class who performs substantially similar work …

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The Justice Department is seeking to rescind as many Obama-era guidance documents as it can identify …

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Can an employer be forced to fund the cost of medical treatment, even though it involves the prescribed use of marijuana? An important test case has now been found in favour of the employer by the Maine Supreme Court …

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The minimum wage in San Francisco has now increased by US$1 to US$15 an hour, the highest rate of any major U …

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The minimum wage in Chicago has now risen to US$12 per hour from US$11 in 2017 …

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Hard on the heels of legislation by Chicago City Council earlier this year, New York City Council has passed its own comprehensive battery of 11 laws to combat sexual harassment at work …

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A number of States are busy amending their data breach regulations to tighten up their personal privacy regimes …

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Unions representing Disney employees in Florida and California are in discussions with the company about significant minimum wage hikes …

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