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Noncompetes with Massachusetts Employees: Subsidizing a Former Employee’s “Garden Leave”

By Lori Caron Silveira on May 22, 2019

Effective October 1, 2018, employers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and other states seeking to hold Massachusetts employees to noncompete agreements… Read More

Posted In: Employees, Employers, Employment Law, Noncompetes

Marijuana in the Workplace

By Lori Caron Silveira on March 26, 2019

Many of our employer clients have contacted us with questions about new laws and court decisions on medical and recreational… Read More

Posted In: Employees, Employers, Marijuana in the Workplace

Department of Labor Proposed Rule Change Raises Salary Level For Exempt Employees

By Robert P. Brooks on March 18, 2019

The U.S. Department of Labor (the “D.O.L.”) announced on Friday, March 7, 2019, that it will be reviewing the salary… Read More

Posted In: Department of Labor, Employees, Employers, Employment Law

New Rhode Island Paid Sick and Safe Leave Act to Take Effect July 1, 2018

By Robert P. Brooks on June 28, 2018

The new Rhode Island Healthy and Safe Families Workplaces Act (“Paid Sick and Safe Leave Act”) takes effect on July… Read More

Posted In: Employees, Employers, Employment Law

Paid Sick and Safe Leave in Rhode Island

By Lori Caron Silveira on February 7, 2018

Rhode Island has recently joined seven (7) states, including neighboring Massachusetts and Connecticut, in enacting a paid “sick and safe”… Read More

Posted In: Employees, Employers, Employment Law

Dreamers In The Workplace: Termination Of The DACA Program

By Lori Caron Silveira on September 8, 2017

Rhode Island employers may well have “dreamers” in the workplace – workers who entered the United States before the age… Read More

Posted In: Employees, Employers, Employment Law, RI General Assembly, Uncategorized

Employers: Do You Know? The Not-So-Basic Basics of Labor & Employment Law

By Lori Caron Silveira on August 15, 2017

Latino-owned businesses have increased exponentially in Rhode Island in the last 20 years. Here at AP&S, we think it’s time… Read More

Posted In: Employees, Employers, Employment Law

Bill Prohibiting Employers from Making Inquiries into Applicants’ Wage and Salary History Introduced in Rhode Island General Assembly

By Ali Khorsand on May 10, 2017

On April 13, 2017, Representatives Perez (D-Dist. 13 Providence-Johnston), McKiernan (D-Dist. 7 Providence), Almeida (D-Dist. 12 Providence), Williams (D-Dist. 9… Read More

Posted In: Employees, Employers, Employment Law, RI General Assembly, Salary History