The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold a workshop to examine the antitrust and consumer protection effects of employee non-competes on labor markets. Of particular interest, whether such restrictions inhibit job mobility and, by implication, depress wages and innovation.

This alert provides an update on steps the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken under Executive Orders (EO) promoting President Trump’s deregulatory agenda.

Federal agencies and Congress are taking aggressive new steps to regulate and fund additional research on per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

On November 1, 2019, the Building Owners & Managers Association of Chicago (BOMA) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the City of Chicago challenging the recently passed Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance (the Ordinance).

The State of New Jersey recently passed the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act (MAID Act), which allows a physician to assist in the suicide of a terminally ill patient following three requests to do so by the patient, one of which must be written

As an attendee at the 2019 American Health Lawyer’s Association (AHLA) Conference on Fraud and Compliance earlier this year, I had the opportunity to hear directly from Joanne Chiedi, the Acting Inspector General in the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG/HHS).

This month, Governor Newsom approved two new employee-friendly bills which extend the statute of limitation for claims under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), and prohibit employers from including “no-rehire” provisions in settlement agreements. Below, we discuss the substance of these new laws and their effects.

On October 10, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 51, which prohibits mandatory arbitration agreements for nearly all types of employment law claims in California.