HR Alerts

View all

Reverse discrimination claims boosted by Supreme Court

by Paige Good and Harrison Kosmider, McAfee & Taft

Jun 06, 2025 · HR Alerts · California · New York · Texas · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington
page

Home

test

Analysis

How to handle a positive result after an on-site drug test

Q If an employee’s on-site drug test is positive, should we follow up with a second confirmatory test? Can this confirmatory test be conducted on-site, or, by law, must this test be conducted in an outside lab? The...

Dec 01, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia

Ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment, not discrimination

Arbitration agreements are a powerful tool used by many employers as a means of alternative dispute resolution. Arbitration allows the parties of a claim to resolve the dispute privately without the involvement of a...

Dec 01, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota

Planning for workforce reductions in an age of inflation

With inflationary pressures and lingering fears of a recession, 2023 has seen layoffs in nearly every sector of the economy. But layoffs have their own price tag, which often includes severance payments to affected...

Dec 01, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California · New York · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

Pay equity issues can arise in multiple ways for employers

Pay equity for women remains an issue for many employers. Among those championing gender pay equity is Megan Rapinoe, an American soccer star who’s set to retire from professional play at the end of the National Women’s...

Dec 01, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

The North Pole and Santa Claus’s motion to dismiss

The North Pole and Santa Claus, by counsel, respectfully ask the court to dismiss all claims brought against them by P.U. Scrooge pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) because all such claims are barred by the Christmas Anticipation...

Dec 01, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

New employer cannot force its way into arbitration

Arbitration procedure can be tricky enough when dealing with only one employee. It gets that much harder when a subsequent employer tries to extend the employees’ arbitration agreement so that it covers claims against a...

Nov 27, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Court reduces attorneys’ fees due to lawyer incivility

In employment cases, attorneys’ fees are often the largest part of a recovery. This was true in a recent California Court of Appeal case, although the result would have been twice as bad were it not for a reduction in...

Nov 13, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

NLRB rulings face review in post-Chevron legal context

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an agency that most clearly represents the political beliefs of the administration it serves. Relying almost exclusively on decisions rather than regulations to establish...

Nov 01, 2023 · Federal Employment Law Insider

Crucial regulations nearing publication

While many believe the “government” is at a standstill because of the chaos in the House of Representatives, the fact is the Executive Branch is hard at work putting crucial workplace regulations into final form...

Nov 01, 2023 · Federal Employment Law Insider

Title VII, ADA, SEC on Supreme Court docket

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue still more rulings that will shape the role of the government and the rights of citizens in the coming term. In addition to weighing the utility of the Chevron doctrine and its...

Nov 01, 2023 · Federal Employment Law Insider