Executive Summary: The unprecedented increase in antisemitism in the workplace may subject employers to liability under federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of religion, race, national origin and ethnicity.... Read more »
On September 29, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its draft enforcement guidance on harassment in the workplace. This proposed guidance comes after a previous attempt to update in 2017. The... Read more »
Quick Hits The EEOC’s proposed guidance specifies what features or content the EEOC believes an anti-harassment policy and complaint process should contain to be effective. The proposed guidance identifies what effective harassment... Read more »
Reiterating its commitment to combatting oppressive child labor, the DOL will “[use] all appropriate enforcement tools, including the hot goods provision of section 212(a)” to curtail child labor violations. The FLSA defines... Read more »
On September 12, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated its official policy manual chapters on employment-based first-preference (EB-1) immigrant petitions in the Extraordinary Ability and Outstanding Professor and Researcher classifications.... Read more »
Pay transparency obligations are in effect in New York State, and the state Department of Labor has issued employer guidance and proposed regulations. As of September 17, 2023, covered employers must include... Read more »
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has updated its Policy Manual (PM) to provide guidance to USCIS officers on evaluating eligibility criteria for the EB-1A (extraordinary ability) and EB-1B (outstanding professor or... Read more »
Jeff Nagle represents clients in a wide variety of financing transactions. His principal practice focuses on leveraged finance and other syndicated bank loan transactions, the financing of financial assets, distressed debt trading,... Read more »
A federal district court applied the wrong legal test when it held on summary judgment that oil rig workers were not entitled to compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for... Read more »
