In this seasonal episode, host Dan Schwartz and Shipman partner Peter Murphy unpack the workplace risks that often accompany end-of-year celebrations — from alcohol service to harassment concerns to wage-and-hour pitfalls. They offer practical, proactive tips for planning inclusive, safe, and genuinely fun events while keeping legal risk in check. Whether you’re gearing up for
Massachusetts has finalized a new salary range transparency law, An Act Relative to Salary Range Transparency. If you have employees whose primary place of work is in Massachusetts, or you post roles that can be performed from Massachusetts or report to a Massachusetts worksite, this law changes how you advertise jobs and how you share
Last month, we joined forces with 17 attorneys from Tarlow Breed Hart & Rodgers as we opened a Boston office, right in the Prudential Center. As a result, we have been talking with our clients more about what laws in Massachusetts may be overlooked by employers. Time and again, three issues keep coming up. Here’s
Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released updated educational materials addressing national origin discrimination, alongside new technical guidance that “clarifies” the prohibition of discrimination against American workers.
Providing no statistics or recent examples, the EEOC suggests that such discrimination is a “large-scale problem in multiple industries nationwide” and that “[m]any employers have policies
In this episode of From Lawyer to Employer, host Dan Schwartz sits down with Abby Booth to unpack highlights from Shipman’s annual Labor & Employment Seminar — from evolving federal and state developments to real-world compliance takeaways for employers. They cover the latest on I-9 audits, NLRB updates, harassment and retaliation trends, reductions in
In April of last year, the Supreme Court held that employees alleging discrimination under Title VII only need to show “some harm” to the terms and conditions of their employment in order to prove that they suffered an adverse employment action, unanimously rejecting the heightened “significant harm” standard followed previously by many lower courts. The
A new California law is the latest litigation target of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”). Signed into law in September, Assembly Bill 288 amended California labor law to allow the state’s labor board to certify unions and resolve labor disputes in the private sector when the NLRB “expressly or impliedly ceded jurisdiction.”
When, exactly
As of October 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is eliminating the automatic extension of work authorization benefits for those renewing an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) in eligible categories. For many foreign nationals in the United States, the ability to work is dependent upon U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) approving an
New Jersey’s labor peace agreement mandate found in the Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization (“CREAMM”) Act is the latest target for lawsuit.
Under the CREAMM Act, a cannabis company must enter a labor peace agreement with a “bona fide labor organization” as a precondition for licensure. This is not a unique feature of cannabis
On September 24, 2025, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that aims to change the H-1B cap lottery selection process to a weighted entry system that would increase the chances of selection for higher paid workers (that is, higher paid in relation to others in similar occupations in