Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer

March 13, 2023 On Friday, March 10, 2023, regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) and seized its deposits, resulting in the second largest U.S. banking failure since the 2008 financi...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2023/03/payroll-obligations-during-liquidity-crunch-crisis-implications-and-responses/

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a sweeping new rule that would ban employers from including non-compete terms in employment agreements with virtually all of their workers – f...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2023/01/ftc-proposes-rule-to-categorically-ban-non-compete-agreements/

On September 27, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1162, which  requires employers with more than 15 employees to disclose pay scales to current employees and on job postings beg...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2022/09/california-requires-disclosure-of-pay-scales-in-job-postings-and-significant-new-pay-data-reporting/

On May 12, 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed into law the Amended New York City Pay Transparency Law, Int. 134-A, extending the effective date of that statute from May 15, 2022 to Nove...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2022/05/effective-date-of-the-new-york-city-pay-transparency-law-extended-to-november-1-2022/

On November 4, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) released its much-anticipated COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) requi...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2021/11/osha-publishes-vaccine-requirements-for-employers-with-100-or-more-employees/

On August 20, 2021, China’s national legislature passed the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”), which will become effective on November 1, 2021. As China’s first comprehensive s...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2021/08/employee-personal-information-protection-in-china-are-you-up-to-speed/

After more than two years of deliberation, the Eleventh Circuit issued its decision in Gil v. Winn-Dixie on April 7, 2021.  Writing for the majority, Judge Elizabeth Branch reversed a trial cour...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2021/04/website-wars-eleventh-circuit-rules-in-a-split-decision-that-websites-are-not-public-accommodations-for-purposes-of-the-americans-with-disabilities-act/

California Governor Newsom signed into law a new bill, SB 95, that provides for up to 80 new hours of COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave to covered employees. The law applies to all businesse...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2021/03/california-enacts-supplemental-covid-19-paid-sick-leave-which-includes-vaccination-related-absences/

The New York State legislature recently passed a bill (S2588A/A3354B), signed into law by Governor Cuomo on March 12, 2021, which amends the New York Labor Law and Civil Service Law to grant priv...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2021/03/new-york-state-requires-employers-to-provide-paid-leave-to-obtain-covid-19-vaccinations/

On January 12, 2021, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, as well as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion, and International Trade, made pa...

https://www.retailconsumerproductslaw.com/2021/01/uk-and-canada-announce-new-measures-to-combat-forced-labor-and-human-rights-violations/