United States: Employee Rights/ Labour Relations

Senior executives of large global conglomerates often sign confidential employment contracts that mandate dispute resolution via a mandatory agreement to arbitration.

Restrictive covenants such as non-compete and non-solicitation provisions are common tools to help protect trade secrets. Recently, a judge at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida recognized that an employer's demand letters seeking to enforce non-compete and non-solicitation provisions of an employment agreement may support a lawsuit challenging the validity of those provisions.

As further implementation of the January 20, 2025 Executive Orders, DHS recently published an interim final rule regarding the requirement that certain non-citizens register with the U.S. Department...

In this podcast, shareholders Chris Near (Columbia) and Lauren Hicks (Indianapolis, Atlanta) discuss federal contractors' and subcontractors' obligations in unwinding Executive Order (EO) 11246...

On March 31, 2025, the Trump administration initiated a "comprehensive review of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University and its affiliates" by the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism...

I want to enter into a separation agreement with an employee who I am terminating. I am offering severance and covering a portion of the employee's COBRA cost.

Many companies are scrambling to quickly assess how to reduce the business impact of the upheaval to U.S. manufacturing and trading with the recent onslaught of tariffs threatened or imposed by the United States...

On April 3, 2025, the Department of Labor (the DOL) issued Field Assistance Bulletin 2025-02 (the FAB) and updated model annual funding notices for single-employer and multiemployer plans.

The Supreme Court issued its opinion in Cunningham v. Cornell University, on April 17, 2025, and held that plaintiffs claiming a qualified retirement plan paid excess or unnecessary fees...

During the Biden administration, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sought to ban virtually all noncompetes per se, and the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) also took strong positions against them.

A U.S. District Court judge in Georgia has declined to partially dismiss a former store manager's discrimination and retaliation claims against Sephora.

In this case, the Court of Appeal reaffirmed the principle that an employee's tort claim is not separately actionable against an employer when it is premised upon the same conduct that gave rise to the termination...