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Client Alerts Employment & LaborUpdate: Massachusetts Paid Family And Medical Leave – Deadline For Employer Contributions Extended To October 1, 2019

June 12, 2019

As has been widely rumored, the Commonwealth has decided to delay the July 1 implementation of the Massachusetts paid family and medical leave law (“PFML”). A joint statement by Massachusetts Governor, Charlie Baker, Senate President, Karen Spilka, and House Speaker, Robert DeLeo explains: [T]he deadline to begin employer contributions to the PFML program has been...

Client Alerts Employment & LaborOne Epic Year Later: Have You Implemented A Mandatory Arbitration Agreement Yet?

May 17, 2019

By Alicia J. Samolis, Michael A. Gamboli and Christopher M. Wildenhain A year ago, the United States Supreme Court issued its seminal decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis, which confirmed that employers may use mandatory individual arbitration agreements without fear of the National Labor Relations Act (see our prior client alert for more details). In Epic’s wake, some employers,...

Articles Employment & LaborEmployer Liability For Medical Marijuana Bias Is Growing

March 22, 2019

By Alicia J. Samolis As seen in Law360 In the recent case of Whitmire v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,[1] the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona granted summary judgment on anti-discrimination claims in favor of the plaintiff and against Walmart under Arizona’s medical marijuana statute. The plaintiff, a former employee of Walmart, had been terminated...

Client Alerts Employment & LaborHere We Go Again – DOL Unveils “New” Overtime Rule

March 18, 2019

Again? In a case of what must feel like déjà vu for employers, on March 7, 2019, after conducting “listening sessions” across the country and receiving tens of thousands of comments from the public, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a much-anticipated proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) that, according to its estimates, would result...

Articles Employment & LaborWhat You Need to Know About the New Mass. Noncompete Law

October 26, 2018

(Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part column. See part 1 here.) By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli As detailed in Part I, certain types of noncompetition agreements are now invalid under the new Massachusetts noncompete law (the Act). This is of course a double-edged sword for employers, who will now benefit from...

Articles Employment & LaborAre You Ready To Steal Employees From Your Mass. Competitors

September 28, 2018

(Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part column. See part 2 here.) By Alicia J. Samolis Massachusetts has recently enacted a law that will render some restrictive covenants unenforceable. The law starts by broadly defining noncompetition agreements as any agreement between a company and a worker in which the worker “agrees that he or...

Articles Employment & LaborCourt of Appeals Upholds Termination of Airport Security Employee

September 20, 2018

PS&H employment partner and Chair of the Labor & Employment Group, Alicia Samolis, provided comment to RI Lawyers Weekly on the recent 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Bonilla-Ramirez v. MVM, Inc., et al. The Court’s decision upheld the termination of an employee of a private security company providing services to U.S. Immigration and...

Articles Employment & LaborU.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Teacher’s Firing

September 6, 2018

PS&H employment partner and Chair of the Employment & Labor Group, Alicia Samolis, provided comment to RI Lawyers Weekly on the recent 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Richard v. Regional School Unit 57. In a split decision, the Court upheld the lower court judge’s decision, after a bench trial, that the teacher’s termination was not...

Articles Employment & LaborEmployee Arbitration Agreement Insights From Rhode Island

May 2, 2018

By Alicia J. Samolis and Christopher M. Wildenhain A Rhode Island federal district court has ruled in an employer’s favor in a recent decision concerning an employee arbitration agreement, an intriguing split from a decision months earlier by a separate session of the court. More specifically, in Britto v. St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode...

Client Alerts Employment & LaborWhy Your Company Will Be in Violation of the Massachusetts Equal Pay Law on July 1st – And How to Fix It

March 28, 2018

By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli As described in our prior publications, an Act to Establish Pay Equity in Massachusetts (the “Equal Pay Law”) will go into effect on July 1, 2018. In basic terms, the Equal Pay Law requires Massachusetts employers to pay the same compensation to men and women performing “comparable” work. The Equal Pay...

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