On Sept. 14, 2020, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law S2380, which creates a rebuttable presumption of workers’ compensation coverage for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases contracted by “essential employees” during the ongoing public health emergency. The law took effect immediately, and applies retroactively to March 9, 2020, when the governor first
The California Labor Commissioner’s Office has challenged Uber and Lyft in two new state-backed lawsuits that allege that the companies have engaged in “wage theft” by misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors. Filed in Alameda County, the suits are the most recent effort to enforce A.B. 5, which arguably caused a sea change in the
The GT Alert — Massachusetts Courts Tie the Very Existence of ‘Trade Secrets’ to Your Business Practices was prepared by David G. Thomas, James P. Ponsetto and Kurt A. Kappes.
Companies must take “reasonable measures” to protect trade secret information in the event the company needs to protect it through the Massachusetts Court
The GT Alert — New Bill Seeks to Combat Theft of Trade Secrets, Protect Jobs was prepared by Johnine P. Barnes.
On April 29, 2014, Senator Christopher Coons (D-Del.) and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced legislation to provide a federal cause of action to curtail the estimated $160 billion to $480 billion currently being