- Posts by Lauren Iannaccone
PartnerLauren Iannaccone’s broad range of experience in complex commercial transactions allows her to respond to significant emergent matters and assist clients efficiently and effectively. Lauren’s litigation experience ...
As the use of medical marijuana increases, employers are facing novel questions about their rights and responsibilities related to employees who use medical cannabis. A recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court is providing some much-needed guidance in this rapidly evolving area of ...
With the New Jersey Medical Marijuana Program serving more than 36,500 patients, questions surrounding the use of cannabis in the workplace are growing exponentially. Considering that there were more than 146 applications to the Department of Health to open Medical Marijuana ...
To assist businesses in reviewing their employment and immigration law compliance efforts and planning their 2019 initiatives, Connell Foley has prepared the following 2019 Employer To-Do Checklist.
On January 8, 2018, the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) was amended to require all New Jersey employers to provide reasonable accommodations to working mothers who breastfeed an infant child. These accommodations include a “reasonable break time” each day and a ...
On November 22, 2016, a federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the enforcement of the United States Department of Labor's new overtime rule, which nearly doubled the salary threshold applicable to the "white collar" overtime exemptions. The rule, which was set to ...
The New Jersey Department of Labor (DOL) has announced the minimum wage rate will increase by six cents from $8.38 to $8.44 an hour, effective January 1, 2017. As the New Jersey minimum wage rate will continue to be higher than the federal minimum wage rate of $7.25 an hour, New Jersey employers ...
On September 29, 2016, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) adopted a “Final Rule” that requires federal contractors to provide up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per year to employees who work in connection with “certain” federal contracts.
The Final Rule applies to new and ...
The federal minimum wage poster and the federal Employee Polygraph Protection Act posters were updated by the U.S. Department of Labor just last week, with a requirement that they be posted in the workplace by employers this week.
The federal minimum wage poster was amended to update ...
The gender pay gap has been a topic of conversation for many decades. In 1970, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) promulgated sex discrimination regulations applicable to federal government contractors and subcontractors and ...
On May 11, 2016, President Obama ratified the “Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016,” giving employers a private cause of action against employees who misappropriate trade secrets. However, the Act, which immediately went into law and effect, offers both employers and employees certain ...