Keep Up With Emerging Issues in Labor & Employment Law

Knowing how fast the laws and regulations an change, LexisNexis® has created a new Emerging Issues section on the Labor & Employment area of law practice page. The Emerging Issues section will give you guidance on dealing with issues like Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, and Pensions & Benefits.

Some of the sources you’ll find include:

• Bender’s Labor & Employment Bulletin—This monthly newsletter covers the full spectrum of issues important to labor and employment practitioners. Each issue contains approximately six to eight incisive articles written by leading employment and labor law authorities, as well as analysis of recent developments in the law, such as new regulations, legislation and case law.
• Mega News, Sexual Harassment—Contains a combination of news and legal news sources published in the United States with premium content and wire services where more than 60% of the stories originate in the United States. Stories are focused on the topic Sexual Harassment and target workplace discrimination based on sex, including unwelcome sexual advances, sexual hostility and demands for sexual favors in exchange for tangible job benefit. The scope includes sexual harassment under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and similar cases in other jurisdictions.
• Sexual Discrimination/Harassment: Mealey's™—Mealey's Sexual Discrimination/Harassment combines sources that contain Mealey's stories covering the issue of sexual discrimination and harassment in litigation.
• USERRA: Reemployment Rights of Returning Soldiers—This expert commentary, written by employment law expert, N. Peter Lareau, focuses on whether an individual returning from service has an unqualified right to be reemployed. It examines the requirements to qualify for reemployment and the factors that may lead to disqualification. A checklist that follows the commentary will be of assistance to the returning G.I. and the employer, as well as their counsel.
• Pensions: Beck v. PACE Int'l Union—This expert commentary by partners from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, LLP, and benefits litigation associate Nicholas S. Curabba, examines this Supreme Court opinion, providing contextual background from the record, the law and experience, and concludes that the Court correctly decided that merger is not an authorized means of terminating a plan.

Additional materials will be added to the Labor & Employment Emerging Issues section as they become available.