On December 3, 2023, the NYC Council passed a bill requiring the Department of Consumer and Worker Production, in coordination with other entities, to publish a workers’ bill of rights on the City’s website.
The UK Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Bill has now made its way through Parliament to become the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023.
The UK Government has introduced draft regulations to preserve in domestic law certain discrimination rights and principles derived from EU law which might otherwise fall away or be departed from following the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act.
The federal government, states, counties, and cities were active again this year passing workplace legislation intended for the most part to protect employees, creating new compliance obligations for employers.
On Nov. 17, 2023, the governor signed into law S4516, which amends Section 5-336 of the New York General Obligations Law to restrict certain terms from being included in release agreements involving claims of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation.
This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal in the last month.
In a recent decision the Second Circuit clarified that the federal Equal Pay Act does not require employers to show that a “factor other than sex” defense must be job-related.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld a lower court’s determination that an employee’s sexual harassment of his subordinate was not sufficiently serious to justify his dismissal.