I. Introduction On March 18, 2020, the President signed The Emergency Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“Bill”) into law. The Bill responds to the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and provides for two new, overlapping paid leave requirements for employers. The first is an amendment to the FMLA, while the other is a separate new, standalone statute called the “Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act.”  Notably, both laws: (1) apply only to employers with fewer than…

Employer-mandated arbitration agreements have been a hot topic in recent years. Most notably, in its highly anticipated decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), employers may require employees to enter into mandatory arbitration agreements as a condition of employment, without violating the National Labor Relations Act (“Act”), and that these agreements may also prohibit employees from arbitrating claims on a collective- or class-wide basis.…