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Quick Hits High-Income Threshold: Employees earning NZD 200,000 or more in total remuneration will lose unjustified dismissal protections. Remedies Reduced or Eliminated for Certain Conduct: Available remedies in personal grievance claims are limited where an employee’s conduct contributed to the situation, and authorities can reduce or eliminate compensation entirely where the employee engaged in serious misconduct, even if the employer’s process was flawed. Procedural Fairness Standard Loosened: A dismissal will…

Quick Hits Seventeen states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin), led by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have sued the U.S. Department of Education (ED) over IPEDS’s Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS), alleging violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, the Paperwork Reduction Act, and the E-Government Act. On March 13, 2026, the U.S. District Court…

Quick Hits A New Jersey federal court granted a request to transfer venue in an age discrimination lawsuit involving a remote employee, transferring the lawsuit to a federal court in a district where the employer was located. The court determined that venue was appropriate where the employer is headquartered and where the alleged discriminatory decisions were made, rather than where the employee resides, and emphasized that litigation convenience weighed in…

Background Under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid are required to collect and disclose statistics for certain “reported” crimes, including sex offenses. In Galvin, the plaintiff employee, Thomas Galvin, served as the defendant college’s primary campus security authority and chief compliance officer for the Clery Act. As such, Galvin was responsible for making Clery Act disclosures. In November 2010, Galvin learned of…

Quick Hits In Bruce v. Adams and Reese, LLP, a former employee sued a law firm for disability discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, and hostile work environment. The Sixth Circuit recently concluded that a mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreement is voidable when a plaintiff brings multiple claims in a case that includes sexual harassment and/or sexual assault. This is the first federal appellate ruling to find that an entire lawsuit is barred…

Quick Hits The standard workweek in Mexico will decrease from forty-eight to forty hours, by two hours per year starting in 2027. Wages and benefits cannot be reduced. Overtime is restructured. A six-day schedule remains permissible. Key Changes Under the Reform Reduced weekly hours. The standard workweek will decrease to forty hours per week in 2030. The reform does not mandate two rest days per week. Hence, the current structure…

Quick Hits The Sixth Circuit declined to enforce the NLRB’s 2023 Cemex standard, which allowed bargaining orders based on unfair labor practices without regard for the results of secret-ballot elections. The court reasoned that the Board engaged in improper rulemaking disguised as adjudication. The court emphasized that the Board overstepped its authority by disregarding the longstanding preference for secret-ballot elections “as the barometer of a union’s support among employees.” The…