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Friday, April 18, 2025

On December 29, 2022, the PUMP Act was signed into law.[1] The PUMP Act further amended the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) “to extend the reasonable break time and space protections to pump breast milk at work to as many as 9 million more employees who were not previou...

Friday, March 14, 2025

 

In 2021, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the launch of its Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative (“CCF” or “the Initiative”).[1] As noted by the DOJ, the Initiative aims to “utilize the False Claims Act to pursue cybersecurity related fraud by governmen...

Friday, February 21, 2025

 

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA” or “the Act”) was signed into law on December 29, 2022.[1] The PWFA went into effect on June 27, 2023, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”)’s final regulation related to the Act went into effect on June 18, 2...

Friday, January 17, 2025

On November 20, 2024, Florida’s First District Court of Appeal (“First DCA”) rendered its opinion in Gessner v. Southern Company & Gulf Power Company, No. 1D2023-2297 (1st DCA Nov. 20, 2024).[1] In the opinion, the First DCA addressed whether under Florida’s Private Secto...

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