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The Connecticut Family and Medical Leave Act (CT FMLA) generally requires private-sector employers to provide unpaid, job-protected leave to employees for various reasons related to their health, the health of a family member or the birth or adoption of a child. The current law applies to employers of 75 or more employees. Effective January 1, 2022, the CT FMLA will be amended in several sign...

Merrick Garland, U.S. attorney general, right, shakes hands with Karen Andrews, Australia's minister for home affairs, during an event in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 15. Australia and the U.S. signed an agreement Wednesday that will let the nations’ law enforcement agencies share sensitive digital data for investigations, from stopping terrorist attacks to preventing child abuse. “The United St...

(Reuters) - The pandemic-driven surge in law school enrollment is real. The number of first-year law students nationwide increased nearly 12% this fall, according to data released Wednesday by the American Bar Association. It said there are 42,718 new Juris Doctor students at the 196 law schools accredited by the ABA, up 4,516 from 2020. That jump follows months of speculation that COVID-19’s...

There was a dream that was “the end of COVID.” Alas, that day hasn’t come yet. This reality hit NYU School of Law students abruptly this morning as the university shut down all plans for in-person exams, leaving the law school scrambling. Those who showed up for this morning’s exams were turned away and told that their exams would now be take-home exams. An email sent at 9:34 a.m. informed th...

Every year we hear stories of people getting hurt by crowds of people while out shopping for the holidays. Attorney Lawyer Twillie of LA Law is talking to us about what you can do about that. For more information visit lalawct.com.

Senate Bill 606, which becomes effective on January 1, 2022, strengthens Cal/OSHA’s enforcement powers by creating two new categories of Cal/OSHA violations: “enterprise-wide” and “egregious”. A finding of an enterprise-wide violation may result in increased fines and penalties and requirements for abatement across multiple employer worksites, while an egregious violation permits increased fi...

On Nov. 19, 2021, the House passed a version of the Build Back Better Act that would vastly expand employer liability under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The bill adds aggressive “civil penalties,” on top of the traditional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) remedies of backpay and reinstatement, for certain violations of the NLRA by employers. Employers found to be in violati...

[co-author: Alexander Hendry] Organisations subject to the law should carry out a gap analysis of their current compliance position against the new requirements. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has issued its first federal data protection law (Federal Decree Law No. 45/2021 on the Protection of Personal Data) (the Data Protection Law), alongside a law establishing the new UAE Data Office (Fede...

FILE - A motorcyclist rides past a mural of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, left, and revolutionary hero Cesar Augusto Sandino during general elections in Managua, Nicaragua, Nov. 7, 2021. GENEVA — The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, is urging the Nicaraguan government to urgently restore public rights and freedoms and the rule of law, which observers say have ...

Play Video 00:00 00:00 spaceplay / pause qunload | stop ffullscreen shift + ←→slower / faster ↑↓volume mmute ←→seek . seek to previous 12… 6 seek to 10%, 20% … 60% WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. – You might be already busy holiday shopping. But, are you prepared to protect yourself from scams? Recently, scammers have been using gift cards to cheat people out of their money. The mos...