For more than 75 years, employers were allowed to call employees into a meeting on company time and explain why they thought a union wasn’t a good idea. These “captive audience” meetings had been legal since the National Labor Relations
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State and local legislatures were active in passing employment laws and ordinances concerning topics such as artificial intelligence, paid leave, and hiring practices, to name a few. As always, minimum wages continue to increase in many jurisdictions and various posters
Introducing HR Radar: Need-to-know employment law developments right at your fingertips
For organisations operating across multiple jurisdictions, keeping track of employment law developments is increasingly challenging. Obligations are multiplying, and HR and legal teams are expected to respond to developments before they create legal, operational or reputational risks.
The challenge is
The Noncompete Debate Is Missing the Bigger Picture (US)
Over the past few years, I’ve had countless conversations with employers about noncompetes. Some are wondering whether their agreements are still enforceable. Others are trying to navigate a patchwork of state laws or make sense of the latest legal developments.
The end of the global employment playbook?
One of the most thought-provoking discussions at the recent International Employment Lawyer (IEL) Global Summit in New York was Two Worlds of Work: Global Trends vs US Direction of Travel, a session that explored an increasingly pressing challenge for multinational
All or Nothing? Second Circuit Clarifies Scope of Sexual Harassment Arbitration Law (US)
A recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit clarified the reach of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (“EFAA”), with significant implications for employers in New York, Connecticut, and
Whistleblower bounties: is the UK joining the American gold rush?
For years, the UK and US have approached whistleblowing from slightly different starting points. The UK’s regime has primarily focused on preventing those who speak up from being subject to any detriment for having done so. The US has gone
Time to set some ground rules – Belgium’s deadline (for now … ) for workplace investigation regulations
Under Belgium’s Private Investigations Act (the “PIA”), an employer may only investigate its employees if the detailed rules governing such investigations are laid down expressly and transparently in a set of internal regulations. Employers were given a transitional period of
California Court of Appeal Clarifies Liability Standard for Supervisor Harassment (US)
On October 5, 2026, the Second Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal held in Doe v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. B344642, that an employer was not strictly liable under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)
Internal investigations under Belgium’s Private Investigations Act: On the why and the how
In part one of this series, we established that the scope of the Private Investigations Act (the “PIA”) is considerably broader than one might assume: if you carry out a workplace investigation internally within a company, you are in principle