Helping Employers in Employment Law Matters and Labor Relations
We know there will be changes ahead with the Trump administration. Your inbox is full of speculation. If I had to put money on the most likely and fastest change to the workplace, it would be enforcement of immigration laws … Read More
Late last week, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2024 overtime rule. The rule had increased the salary threshold for certain overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act … Read More
A couple of weeks ago, the New York City Council introduced a bill to allow pet-owning employees to use their paid sick leave to care for their animals. Currently, earned sick time may be used for personal health needs, to … Read More
Campaign promises are not always good predictors of future action. Given that Donald Trump was president once already though, we have some ideas of what to expect: IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT: I-9: Expect more I-9 audits, a lot more. Trump’s last year … Read More
Free speech is having a moment. Not since my kids were young and tried to claim free speech rights against each other (fill in the blanks) have I heard so many claims of free speech. In the workplace, freedom of … Read More
What happened in the house of SHRM? Last week, a judge denied the Society for Human Resource Management’s attempt to prevent a jury trial on charges of maliciously engaging in race discrimination. The judge put it best: this is a … Read More
Imagine discovering that for decades you were paid half of what your co-worker made for the same job. Then imagine fighting that injustice and being awarded $3 million in back pay and damages–only to have the amount reduced to a … Read More
We all knew the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) would be a game changer. While challenges to the PWFA work their was through the courts, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) is wasting no time enforcing the new law. In … Read More
Fed Ex wants its employees with medical restrictions to stay out of work until they are “100% healed.” Until medical restrictions were completely lifted, employees were forced to take unpaid medical leave, and some eventually terminated. It is certainly a … Read More
Remember last year when the Federal Trade Commission created a rule banning non-compete restrictions nationwide? There were lawsuits, lots of them. We watched and waited. With the September 4, 2024, effective date for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule rapidly … Read More
EEOC and Social Media: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s most recent Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace threaded the needle on when social media outside the workplace rises to a hostile workplace: Conduct that can affect the terms … Read More