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Ambush Election Rule Catches Employers Flat-Footed

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SEC Settles over Old Confidentiality Agreement

Texas District Court Enjoins FMLA Same-Sex Spouse Rule

Even as the president called for a national paid-sick-leave law in the week leading up to the 2015 State of the Union address and during the speech, employers in California are struggling to comply with a state mandate for paid leave that takes effect July 1, 2015.

When an employer may require retirees to contribute toward bargained-for retiree health benefits may boil down to the rules of general contract interpretation, according to a Nov. 10, 2014, oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Most of the justices were leaning toward rules of general contract interpretation,” Amy Covert, an attorney with Proskauer in New York City, told SHRM Online. The justices didn’t want to put a “thumb on the scale in favor of employers or employees” with default contract presumptions.

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Employers concerned about the spread of the Ebola virus in the United States don’t have to sit on their hands and do nothing, even if the risk of the disease spreading is low.

The California Supreme Court on June 23, 2014, departed from a prior decision, which had been nullified by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, by finding an arbitration agreement that waived the right to bring a class-action suit was enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA).