The B&B Docket Blog:

On November 1, New York City employers will be required to include a minimum and maximum salary or hourly wage in job ads. This pay-transparency law makes it an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to post any job listing without the salary or wage information. While Massachusetts has not enacted a law requiring employers to disclose wage ranges in…

Attorney Todd J. BennettAttorney Sudeshna TrivediA salesperson who was wrongfully terminated from his employment will not be subject to broad restrictions, after B&B attorneys Todd Bennett and Sudeshna Trivedi successfully defeated his former employer’s emergency motion for a preliminary injunction. The employer sought in part to enjoin the B&B client from soliciting a wide pool of potential customers, which would…

Attorney David E. Belfort Attorney Eric R. LeBlanc Attorney Todd J. Bennett Attorney Craig D. Levey Bennett & Belfort P.C. is proud to announce that attorneys David E. Belfort, Todd J. Bennett, Eric R. LeBlanc, and Craig D. Levey have been recognized in the 29th Edition of The Best Lawyers for their exceptional legal talent as recognized by their colleagues…

On July 26, 2022, Massachusetts became the 18th state in the U.S. to ban discrimination based on natural hairstyle and hair texture. The CROWN (“Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural hair”) Act amends the definition of “race” in Massachusetts’ anti-discrimination law, G.L. c. 151B, to include “traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture,…

The “American Rule” has long disallowed a prevailing party in litigation from recovering its attorneys’ fees from the losing party, absent unusual circumstances. The Supreme Judicial Court held in the recent case of Tocci v. Tocci that the American Rule stands as firmly as ever, denying a closely held corporation from recovering the attorneys’ fees that it had expended in…

Partner Todd BennettPartner Craig LeveyOn July 15, 2022, a judge sitting in Suffolk Superior Court ruled that Bennett & Belfort’s client is entitled to a jury trial on all four counts of the Complaint for disability discrimination, gender identity discrimination, retaliation, and interference, against Plaintiff’s former employer and supervisor, Massachusetts General Hospital and Giuliana Arcovio.  Plaintiff is represented by Craig…

A federal jury in Massachusetts has found a construction company and its CEO liable in the gross amount of $650,000 after they reported an injured employee to immigration authorities in retaliation for his application for workers’ compensation benefits. In 2017, José Martin Paz Flores, an employee of Tara Construction, Inc. fell off a ladder while working and broke his leg.…

Two new Supreme Court decisions will make it easier for some employees to keep their cases in court, and out of arbitration. In Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon, issued on June 6, 2022, the high court ruled that ramp supervisors working for Southwest Airlines are “engage in foreign or interstate commerce” and thus are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act…