Matt welcomes his colleague Bran Noonan to discuss the newly-passed NYC law prohibiting employers from inquiring about job applicants' salary histories, the potential for civil litigation in this area, and whether this signifies a national trend.

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Matt welcomes Work Market President/Co-Founder Jeff Wald to dispel myths about the developing "on-demand" workforce, discuss how new technology platforms and changing workplace demographics will continue to affect the labor market, and analyze the overall impact (positive and negative) these developments may have on employers, employees, and society as a whole. Matt and Jeff then comment on NYC's recently enacted "Freelance Isn't Free Act" (FIFA), the first law in the country explicitly designed to protect on-demand workers, and predict whether employers outside of NYC should expect to see similar legislation in the future.

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Matt welcomes Lourdes Rosado, Bureau Chief, Civil Rights Bureau of the New York Attorney General Office, to discuss her professional background advocating for children’s rights and criminal justice reform, the NYAG's broad ability to investigate and prosecute (both civilly and criminally) employment-related claims, increased collaboration amongst Attorneys General across the country on discrimination-related issues, and Lourdes’ observations regarding specific employment law issues including: "ban the box" criminal conviction discrimination statutes, protecting undocumented workers, various forms of alleged housing discrimination, a potential uptick in sexual harassment claims and wage/hour investigations, protecting LGBT and domestic violence victims' rights, religious accommodations in the workplace and curbing the use of non-competes.

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Matt welcomes Angela Corridan, Director of Labor & Employment Law for JetBlue Airways Corporation, and Ron Palmese, General Counsel for Shake Shack, to generally discuss both employees' and employer's increased social and political activism and how that may change the employer/employee relationship, recent related litigation and media attention involving employees terminated for sending offensive tweets, and the various legal issues surrounding the New York Legal Activities Law.

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Matt welcomes women's rights advocate and civil rights lawyer Jack Tuckner for a discussion on the wide range of pregnancy-related discrimination claims, including the "holy trinity" of pregnancy, gender, and disability discrimination causes of action, the rise of "gender plus" stereotyping claims, workplace culture and paternity leave, and other insights from a plaintiffs' lawyer's perspective.

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Matt welcomes back Akerman employee benefits guru Beth Alcalde to decode the rhetoric and discuss practical insights surrounding the newly-proposed "American Health Care Act" and what it could mean for employers if passed. Pre-existing condition exclusions, dependent eligibility, HSAs, FSAs, individual/employer mandates, tax incentives, and potential costs to employers are explored.

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David Lopez served as EEOC General Counsel from 2010 to 2016 (the longest tenure of any EEOC General Counsel). In this episode, Matt and David explore a myriad of topics, including EEOC litigation and enforcement trends/predictions, LGBTQ and undocumented worker rights, potential "religious freedom" defenses, and SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch's noteworthy employment-related decisions. David also talks about his transition to private practice and launching a new D.C. office for Outten & Golden.

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Matt welcomes BNP Paribas NYC Senior Employment Counsel Thomas Mullins and Akerman Los Angeles Partner Rachel Schumacher (covering both coasts!) to discuss disability discrimination trends and the potential next wave of reasonable accommodation requests, including the use of medical marijuana, adjusting management styles in response to employee mental health concerns, support animals, allergies, other light/sound/scent sensitivities in the workplace and much more.

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Matt and Beth return to discuss the "repeal and replace" debate (and help separate fact from fiction), practical insights about the Trump administration's Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services nominees, ACA provisions most likely to survive, other most likely to fall, the potential for employer tax incentives and what all of this means for your workplace.

Matt welcomes his colleague Beth Alcalde to discuss Obamacare – stripped of political rhetoric. In the first of this two-part podcast, Matt and Beth discuss the ACA's operational functionality, ways in which it succeeded, ways in which it failed and often-debated alternatives such as the elimination of state lines and the "single-payer" option.