Specialty Group: Employment and Labor Law

Author: Gary McLaughlin and Sandra Hanian While California has long prohibited noncompete agreements (subject to narrow exceptions), two California bills recently signed into law expand the scope of the State’s polic ...

The Unfair Contract Terms regime has been amended, coming into effect on 9 November 2023. While employment contracts are not impacted by the regime, contractor agreements in many cases will be. Additionally, proposed cha ...

The General Corruption Prevention Regime (DL 109-E/2021) sets forth that all companies with headquarters in Portugal and branches in national territory of legal persons with headquarters abroad that employ 50 or more wor ...

Authrs Jeremy Mittman and Thea E. Rogers California Governor Newsom recently signed into law a new law allowing for “reproductive loss leave” (SB 848) which will permit eligible employees to take up to five days of ...