This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment and labor law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal over the last month.
The Dutch Supreme Court has definitively resolved the question of whether an employment contract between a secondment agency and a secondment worker may end with immediate effect under the “secondment provisions” if the secondment worker falls ill.
In a recently published appellate division decision, Kennedy v. Weichert Co., a New Jersey court addressed the issue of classification of commissioned real estate salespeople as independent contractors.
New Jersey has enacted Assembly Bill No. A1474/S511, commonly known as the “Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights,” which establishes numerous labor and employment protections for large portions of New Jersey’s more than one 125,000 temporary workers.
On December 14, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) signed and published a Memorandum of Understanding for Employment Tax Referrals.