Tennessee is on the verge of enacting sweeping changes to the enforceability of restrictive covenants. A bill that cleared both chambers of the General Assembly in April now awaits Governor Bill Lee’s signature, and...
Employment Law Letter
As companies continue to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) tools to streamline various business processes, many of these tools are being applied to workforce management tasks. While the power of these tools is...
The Texas Supreme Court smacked down a decision from a Houston appeals court that—if allowed to stand—would have greatly expanded liability for negligent hiring decisions made by Texas companies. Read on. Tragic accident...
All wage and hour class actions are difficult, and some are nearly impossible to manage. After 19 years of litigation, multiple appellate detours, a bifurcated bench trial, testimony from hundreds of class members, and a...
Who gets to decide in the first instance whether an app-based worker is an employee? Uber argued that Proposition 22 made the answer clear enough to block the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal...
President Trump is trying to remove major agencies from collective bargaining coverage, and federal employee unions won a broad preliminary injunction against the Executive Order (EO). But the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of...
Six years ago, California employers were reeling from COVID-related workplace restrictions, including rules prohibiting or restricting attendance at the office. Personal privacy rights were jettisoned, as everybody’s...
It is a common enough situation: An employee who has never asserted a disability is acting or speaking inappropriately or oddly or being aggressive or noncompliant, and a supervisor surmises that a mental health...
Tuition reimbursement can be a strong recruiting and retention tool. For Wisconsin employers, the value of that benefit often depends on whether the repayment terms are clear, practical, and enforceable before the onset...
Evidence is piling up that many in today’s workplace are not OK. Stressors like financial insecurity, worries about artificial intelligence (AI), and political strife spilling into the workplace are dragging people down...
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Today’s workplaces likely have a different look and feel than the offices of just a few years ago. When hybrid work first became normalized, organizations began looking at space differently and even downsizing their real...
Jun 01, 2026 · Employment Law Letter
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I hear the incredulity from clients constantly: “Overtime? We pay our employees a salary—they aren’t eligible for overtime.” I call it the salary assumption. Unofficially, it’s the most common misconception in employment...
Employers are generally not required to complete a Form I-9 for employees who are employed by a contractor providing contract services (such as employee leasing or temporary agencies) and providing labor or services to...
Just over two years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court overruled precedent on the issue of adverse employment actions in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 employment discrimination cases in its seminal...
On April 22, 2026, Virginia enacted a paid family and medical leave law after the Virginia General Assembly accepted Governor Abigail Spanberger’s amendments. The program will be administered by the Virginia Employment...