Access to COVID-19 vaccines continues to expand in the United States, and employers are navigating many questions about employee vaccinations and return to work. Current polling shows a substantial number of workers are...
Employment Law Letter
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its first guidance for fully vaccinated individuals on March 8, 2021. The new guidelines may tempt you to begin relaxing workplace safeguards and...
Ambiguous and confusing communications by an employer and benefits administrator to an employee about her Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and short-term disability (STD) leave requests created issues of fact for a...
The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin employers) recently interpreted the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in a case involving an interesting set of facts...
In late 2020, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) issued guidance confirming the COVID-19 pandemic had triggered the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act's (HFWA) provision entitling all employees to up...
Amid the flurry of executive actions taken in the Biden administration’s first weeks, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rescinded the Trump era Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program. While it lasted...
Each year, Florida legislators meet for just 60 days to propose and pass new laws. This year, they’re in session through the end of April, and a number of employment-related bills have been introduced. Many are proposed...
Following President Joe Biden's inauguration, House Democrats reintroduced the Paycheck Fairness Act, which passed the House on Thursday, April 8. The legislation was sponsored by every Democrat in Congress as well as...
Despite the Biden administration's public advocacy of renewed regulation of sectors and businesses that were given a free hand by the prior administration, there has been surprisingly little activity, especially by the U...
In the wake of outspoken opposition to the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act within the Democratic caucus in the Senate and the union defeat at Amazon, union leaders and prolabor politicians are likely to move...
It’s possible the union election at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was over the day a group of supportive politicians visited the plant and were greeted with signs reminding them that these employees already...
Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington) and Representative Bobby Scott (D-Virginia) filed resolutions to disapprove the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) conciliation rule under the Congressional Review Act...
Buried in President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan is a proposal to increase funding to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) workforce enforcement agencies. The infrastructure plan would increase the annual funding for DOL by...
Buried in President Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan is a proposal to increase funding to the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) workforce enforcement agencies (https://bit.ly/3at3FBl). The infrastructure plan would increase...
Under Maine law, the employer's policy controls the payout of vacation time when an employee is terminated, the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island...