United States: Employment and HR

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...

Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming recently passed laws aligning with recent executive orders issued by President Donald Trump defining sex as binary and immutable.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have issued two technical assistance documents entitled...

In a dispute over workplace vaccination requirements, a federal district court in Oregon joined a growing trend in workplace vaccination litigation when it ruled that a plaintiff's allegations of religious conflict...

In Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Sheets Enterprise, No. 24 cv 2277 (N.D. Ill.), a district court held that an employer could not avoid being held liable...

The decision, which resolves a three-way split among the U.S. Circuit Courts of appeal, will likely make it easier for plaintiffs to survive motions to dismiss in ERISA litigation filed against plan fiduciaries, including disputes over plan service provider agreements.

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...

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...