Can employers still require employees to sign arbitration agreements with class action waivers as a condition of employment?  Last week, the Ninth Circuit became the second appellate court to adopt the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) position that class action waivers violate the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) in Morris v. Ernst & Young LLP.

In February 2012, the plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against Ernst & Young in the Southern District of New […]

Without fanfare, the City of Philadelphia has enacted an ordinance that prohibits many employers from obtaining or using credit-related information regarding employees and job applicants.

For most employers, it is now an unlawful discriminatory practice to procure, to seek a person’s cooperation or consent to procure, or to use credit information regarding an employee or applicant in connection with hiring, discharge, tenure, promotion, discipline or consideration of any other term, condition or privilege of employment […]