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Employers have used non-compete agreements, or restrictive covenants, to prohibit their employees from working for a competitor within a certain time period after leaving their job.  In recent years, a handful of states have passed laws partially banning these agreements. Most recently, D.C.... Read more >

This information has been updated with DOL resources. The American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”), which was enacted on March 11, 2021, includes provisions for employee paid sick and family leave, and assistance with payment of COBRA premiums for the continuation of health coverage, the costs of wh... Read more >

As the COVID-19 vaccine becomes more widely available to the public, many employers are considering whether it is legally possible – or prudent – to require employees to receive such vaccines when they become available.  The short answer is: it depends.  Consequently, before employers ... Read more >

The paid leave requirements of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ended on December 31, 2020.  As a reminder, these leave requirements had two components:  (1) up to 80 hours of emergency paid sick leave, which could be used by an employee who was unable to work for any of... Read more >

On December 17, 2020, Governor Larry Hogan signed an Executive Order requiring all Marylanders to limit travel to essential purposes and requiring all Marylanders who travel outside of Maryland, or any individual who travels to Maryland, to follow the travel orders issued by the Secretary of Health.... Read more >

One of the factors considered when determining how much child support one parent should pay the other is the number of overnights the child spends with each parent.  Before October 1, 2020, if a child spent less 35% of the overnights (or 128 overnights per year) with one parent, then the other ... Read more >

Nearly 30 years after the Supreme Court announced the Daubert standard, Maryland’s highest court has followed suit.  By adopting the Daubert standard, the Court of Appeals overrules its longstanding Frye-Reed test, and completes the State’s slow drift away from focusing on the “general ac... Read more >

It has been a year of many difficult adjustments for all Maryland employers.  A few more changes lie ahead, as new employment (and related) laws take effect October 1, 2020. The new laws include human relations protections, hate crime symbols, prohibitions on wage history inquiries, business... Read more >

Maryland now recognizes a new cause of action, the tort of intentional interference with an inheritance or gift.  Previously, Maryland recognized the tort of wrongful or malicious interference with economic relations, which involved contractual or business relationships between the plaintiff an... Read more >

Hard on the heels of a disastrous spring that saw employers of all sizes laying off or furloughing employees in record numbers, a new law quietly passed in Maryland, which will impose heavy penalties on employers with 50 or more employees who fail to give sixty days’ advance notice of covered relo... Read more >