Not long after Mother’s Day, working mothers will finally be given the gift of the right to fair treatment and accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, and related health conditions. Two major federal laws recently went into effect to provide greater expansion into the rights of pregnant and nursing workers: The PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act...

The National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) recently issued a decision that has profound impacts on the validity of confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses in employment contracts, McLaren Macomb et al, Case 07-CA-263041. The case involved an employer that offered severance agreements to some employees it had permanently laid off. The severance agreement, which conditioned payment...