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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has recently released a new resource document for employers, providing valuable guidance on how to navigate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in relation to job applicants and employees with hearing disabilities.

Recently, Maryland Senate Bill 450 (SB 450) went into effect, revising the definition of sexual harassment in the workplace by changing the standard of sexual harassment from “severe or pervasive” conduct to the “totality of the circumstances” in sexual harassment cases.

Employers take note—a recent rule change implemented by the NLRB is designed to make it easier for unions to organize […]

  On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposed a rule to ban non-compete agreements between employers and “workers.”  If […]

On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act (the PWFA), which will go into […]

On November 8, 2022, voters in Washington, D.C. chose to eliminate the lower minimum wage—called the tipped minimum wage or […]

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently released a new “Know Your Rights” poster that replaces the previous “EEO is the Law” poster, which employers with at least 15 employees are required to display in a conspicuous location in the workplace where notices to applicants and employees are customarily posted

In Kodiak Building Partners, LLC v. Adams (“Kodiak”), C.A. No. 2022-0311-MTZ, the Delaware Court of Chancery recently found the restrictive covenants imposed on a stockholder in a business acquisition were overbroad and therefore unenforceable.

 The act also adds “homeless status” as a protected category, which is defined under the Act as “an individual or […]