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• Starting July 1, 2024, a new California law, SB 478, will prohibit businesses from adding automatic service charges onto consumer bills.
• Other states and federal agencies may soon restrict, or prohibit, businesses from using automatic service charges.

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• The Maine Department of Labor issued proposed rules for the state’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program, providing employers with initial clarification regarding covered employees, contribution amounts, substitution of private plans, and other facets of the law.
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• Many federal courts and litigants over the years have assumed that FLSA settlements require court approval.
• In Gilstrap v. Sushinati LLC, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled that it lacked authority to

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• Maryland’s HB 1388 imposes greater restrictions on Maryland employers entering noncompete and conflict of interest agreements with both health care and veterinary professionals.
• HB 1388 prohibits restrictions for certain employees who are required to be licensed under the

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• The FTC’s final rule prohibiting most non-compete agreements involving “workers” applies to terms and conditions of employment that “prohibit[] a worker from, penalize[] a worker for, or function[] to prevent a worker” from seeking or accepting work in

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• A new legal challenge by more than a dozen business groups seeks to overturn and enjoin the enforcement of the DOL’s new rule raising the earnings thresholds for the FLSA’s white-collar overtime exemptions.
• As in a 2016 challenge

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Biden Announces Nominations to NLRB. This week, President Biden announced that he would renominate Lauren McFerran, chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), for another term. (Her current term expires on December 16, 2024.) He will also nominate Joshua…