By: Laurie E. Leader EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, BENDER'S LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT BULLETIN The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is aggressively prosecuting employers who enter into no-poach agreements 1 under the antitrust laws. Until 2021, DOJ enforcement...

By: Angela R. Cabral and Chelsea R. Avent , SLOAN SAKAI YEUNG & WONG LLP SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS, SUCH AS FENTANYL, ARE RESPONSIBLE for thousands of deaths in California every year. 1 Nationwide, deaths due to overdose rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 and...

By: Damon W. Silver , Gregory C. Brown, Jr. , and Cindy Huang , JACKSON LEWIS P.C. Overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Employment Decisions AI tools are fundamentally changing how people work. Tasks that used to be painstaking and time-consuming...

By: Jonathan R. Mook DIMUROGINSBERG PC It has been more than three years since COVID-19 changed not only the way in which we work, but our entire lives as well. The lockdowns have ended, and we now are venturing into uncharted waters in what has been...

This checklist provides guidance on pay disclosure laws cropping up around the country. One of the goals of these laws is to provide workers with more information regarding an employer’s pay practices so they have greater leverage to discuss and...