February 06, 2019
A New York City law requiring fast-food businesses to forward voluntary deductions from workers' paychecks to nonprofits like the "Fight for $15" campaign is lawful and doesn't trample on employers' First Amendment rights, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
January 26, 2018
There's been plenty of action recently in federal courts recently that employment lawyers may have missed, including a judge temporarily freezing a New York City law that forces fast-food businesses to forward workers' voluntary paycheck deductions to nonprofits and Charles Schwab losing its bid to compel arbitration in a class action alleging it mishandled an employee retirement plan. Here, Law360 looks at four noteworthy developments that could have slipped through the cracks.
November 22, 2017
The National Restaurant Association and its legal affiliate on Tuesday sued New York City to invalidate a statute that would require fast-food businesses to forward voluntary deductions from workers' paychecks to nonprofits like the "Fight for $15" campaign, saying it tramples on the First Amendment's protections against compelled speech.