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Q We have an employee who is undergoing fertility treatments out of town and misses days sporadically. Do these absences fall under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? Great question; complicated answer. The answer...

Nov 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming

Q Do employees have to be employed for 12 months or work 1,250 hours to qualify for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), or do they qualify as soon as they begin employment? No, employees don’t need to be employed...

Nov 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming

On January 12, 2024, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to employers in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, as well as two other states not included in Mountain West Employment Law Letter)...

Nov 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming

During this year’s legislative session, the Maryland General Assembly passed a statute that will require employers to disclose wage information any time they post a job listing, as well as a new law mandating that...

Nov 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia

In early October 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to answer a question that has divided courts across the country: in short, whether an employee in a majority group—white, male, or straight—must offer additional...

Nov 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California · Texas · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota

Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) went into effect on January 1, 2021. Since then, employers have had a number of unanswered questions related to the statute and accompanying regulations. Recently, the...

Nov 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont

Q Is there a statute of limitations regarding when employers must inform employees of an overpayment of wages, and can employees be held legally accountable for paying the overpayment back? The Federal Labor Standards...

Nov 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming

In May 2023, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memo outlining her position that noncompete agreements in employment contracts potentially violate workers’ rights under...

Nov 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota

The University of California (UC) acted almost perfectly, investigating claims of professorial misconduct while responding appropriately to disability accommodation requests. But they shared their concerns—and employee...

Oct 25, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California

To make sure employment arbitration proceedings move along quickly, a new California law says that “if the fees or costs to initiate an arbitration proceeding are not paid within 30 days after the due date, the drafting...

Oct 11, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California

Whenever an employer investigates employee misconduct, there’s a chance it will find—and may have to disclose—negative facts. This is true when a hospital investigates the medical conduct of a doctor, or an employer...

Oct 11, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California

The increasingly complicated legal battle over the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime rule—and the way it defines the exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employees...

Oct 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider