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Employment Law – EEOC opens new battle front on severance agreements, Third Circuit embraces ‘lower bar” for successor liability under the FLSA and more.

Third Circuit Embraces “Lower Bar” for Successor Liability under the FLSA by John Barry, Allison Lynn Martin, Joseph C. O’Keefe, Lawrence Sandak, Daniel Saperstein and Robert Schwartz Published on JDSupra

In Thompson v. Real Estate Mortgage Network, No. 12-3828, 2014 WL 1317137 (3d Cir. Apr. 3, 2014), the Third Circuit adopted a standard of successor liability that will lower the bar for whether an employer can be held accountable under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) for the wage and hour violations of its predecessor… [ Read More ]

Unpaid, but Not Unprotected: New York City Extends Human Rights Law to Protect Interns by Mike Delikat, Melissa Hammock and Devin Slack Published on JDSupra

As reported by us in recent blog articles (Do as I Say, Not as I Do: Differences in Duties Means No Commonality, No Class Certification for Unpaid Interns and The High Cost of Hiring Unpaid Interns), employment issues surrounding unpaid interns are on the rise… [ Read More ]

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Opens New Battle Front on Severance Agreements by Paul Patten Published on The National Law Review

Using a novel procedural mechanism, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Chicago District Office has begun to challenge often-used provisions of severance agreements that, according to the Commission, violate Title VII, but which employers view as important to protecting their business interests… [ Read More ]