The 2023 and 2024 legislative landscape witnessed a surge in states and cities implementing diverse pay transparency requirements. Despite the progress in recent years in reducing the wage gap, gender pay disparities...
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Over the past few years, there have been much higher rates of immigration than had previously been projected. In 2019, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)—which is tasked with providing independent, nonpartisan...
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On April 22, 2024, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals substantially redefined the burden of proof employers must meet to establish the degree of impairment that can be apportioned to a preexisting condition in...
On March 15, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Lindke v. Freed that lays out a two-part test for when a public official’s social media activity constitutes state action. According to the Court, a public...
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On April 20, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul approved the $237 billion New York State Budget for fiscal year 2025. Several of the budget’s provisions will affect and create new legal obligations for New York State employers...
For several years now, finding and hiring talent has been top of mind for employers. But the picture is changing. Often, there are still more open jobs than qualified employees to fill them, but at least some studies...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t just creating buzz. It’s also sparking both fear and enthusiasm, with some employers worried about the downsides and others eager to dive in and capitalize on the potential. No matter...
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In a recent ruling that could have important implications for employers’ disciplinary actions, the Michigan Supreme Court has expanded the scope of retaliation claims under the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA)...
A recent case from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all Texas employers) provides a valuable lesson. The case involved a teacher who—to her credit—proceeded on her own without a lawyer. The...
On April 29, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published its “Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace,” which is meant to update, consolidate, and replace the previous guidance...
One of the benefits of workers’ compensation is that it shields an employer from much more expensive types of injury claims. The injured worker trades the chance for a huge recovery in favor of an easier, more rapid...
The Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) is kind of like Godzilla. It arose as an artificial nuclearization of our labor code and then kept growing to obtain powers that weren’t fully imagined or understood at the start...
California’s jurisdiction law is called a “longer arm statute” because it confers to its court’s jurisdiction as broadly as the California and United States Supreme Courts will allow. As taught in this case, that...
The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule making significant changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations regarding the minimum salary threshold for white...
The employer and employee signed an arbitration agreement and agreed thereafter that their dispute should be resolved in arbitration. As we have seen so many times before, the employer was a few weeks late paying the...