Employment Notes

REMOTE/CONTROLLED = THE NEW TRUST EQUATION: THE FUTURE OF WORK REPORT 2021

Covid-19, Brexit, and President Biden: What Financial Sector Employers in the US and UK Should Expect in 2021

COVID-19: PEOPLE: EMPLOYMENT ISSUES - KEY DEVELOPMENTS AND RESOURCES (UNITED STATES)

US: 1.3 million additional workers to receive overtime pay and California upends the gig economy

United States Employment Update: Summer 2019

Updated HSF multi-jurisdictional guide to employee issues in business transfers

Employment law issues rarely determine the strategy for a multi-jurisdictional business acquisition, but they can certainly give rise to significant …

US: New EEOC guidance for wellness programs

Large employers using wellness programs to reduce the cost of medical benefits must take care not to inadvertently violate various federal laws, …

US: Proposed new obligation for large US employers to report pay information

A rule recently proposed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seeks to expand the scope of information that US employers with over 100 …

EU: Data protection - proposed EU-US Privacy Shield

The EU Commission and the US have agreed on a new framework to facilitate the transfer of EU personal data to the US, the EU-US Privacy Shield, following …

UK: HSF Global Guide to Whistleblowing

Herbert Smith Freehills has published the first edition of a Global Guide to Whistleblowing, providing a quick reference guide to the law and culture …

US: Second Circuit decision protecting internal whistleblowers creates circuit split

A recent decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (Bergman v Neo@Ogilvy LLC) held that the Dodd-Frank Act protects employee whistleblowers who …

US: SEC targets confidentiality agreements in first-ever whistleblower protection enforcement action

The Securities and Exchanges Commission has settled its first enforcement action against a company for “improperly restrictive language in …