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The Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), among other things, requires employers to obtain written authorization and disclose certain information whenever the employer uses an outside agency to conduct background...

A New York appellate court recently ruled that an employer could not rely on the doctrine of “inevitable disclosure” in support of its application for a preliminary injunction barring a former employee from...

For years, courts have debated the enforceability of written agreements to arbitrate employment disputes. In its landmark 2001 decision in Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams, 532 U.S. 105 (2001), the U.S. Supreme Court...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently reversed a lower court decision in favor of a former executive of IBM in a lawsuit involving millions of dollars in stock awards and options. In Lucente v....

On September 23, 2002, Governor Gray Davis signed new legislation, the Family Temporary Disability Insurance program (“TFDI”), making California the first state in the country to offer workers paid family leave....

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Act”), which was signed by President Bush on July 30, 2002, is intended to rein in corporate and accounting misdeeds by closely regulating corporate governance and reporting...

The California Legislature is considering several bills that would drastically change the manner in which employment disputes are resolved in the state. The Assembly Judiciary Committee recently proposed a six-bill package...

A recently-enacted California law imposes new restrictions on the use of Social Security numbers for identification purposes. The legislation (“SB 168”) aims to combat identity theft with a two-pronged approach...

Effective May 7, 2022, private sector New York employers must provide notice to employees if they monitor employees’ telephones, emails, and/or internet access/usage (“employee communications”). The new law (the...

By a vote of 5-4, the United States Supreme Court has struck down a controversial Department of Labor (“DOL”) regulation providing that time off from work may not be counted against an employee’s 12 weeks of...