WalletHub recently released a report ranking Delaware as the best state in the union for working from home. The study considered factors such as the share of workers working from home before COVID-19, Internet cost...
Employment Law Letter
After dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic for more than a year, we've seen a meteoric rise in unemployment compensation claims. As new jobless benefits programs come into play, fraud has become major problem, with cost...
With a recently relaunched website, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has kicked off its annual EEO-1 Component 1 Report survey for pandemic-delayed 2019 and 2020 data. The data collection will closed on...
A federal agency recently released annual statistics for employment discrimination claims, delivering some potentially good news for employers. The billion-dollar question, however, is whether the promising trends will...
Employers routinely use severance agreements to eliminate their risk of liability to former employees, even when their exposure to a claim is low. They do so chiefly because severance agreements typically include a broad...
The Connecticut Appellate Court recently affirmed the dismissal of a former employee’s claim he was terminated in violation of the state’s “public policy” for opposing a plan to use telephone poles that contained...
Effective July 1, 2022, New Mexico joined 15 other states in requiring private employers to provide paid sick leave under its Healthy Workplaces Act (HWA). The Act requires them to provide up to 64 hours of paid sick...
Vaccinations are proceeding apace in Colorado and across the United States. But as workplaces get set to resume full in-office operations, there’s a movement to limit mandatory vaccination policies and employer...
Q Our employee has filed an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) request with her psychiatrist to work from home permanently. Do we have to accommodate her? She already has performance issues, and no one else on her...
Under the Arkansas workers’ compensation statute, injured employees may receive an award for their loss of wage-earning capacity. One alternative is for the employer to make a bona fide job offer that will pay at least...
Over the last five years, an unceasing wave of lawsuits and demand letters alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has argued that failing to provide websites accessible to individuals with...
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) forbids pregnancy bias in any aspect of employment, including hiring, firing, pay, job assignments, promotions, or any other term or condition. Although the Act was signed into law...
Reversing long-standing precedent, the Alaska Supreme Court recently lowered the burden of proof employers must meet to establish an exemption under the Alaska Wage and Hour Act (AWHA). The court held employers must...
With more workers being invited back into the workplace as the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be subsiding, you can expect an uptick in requests for disability accommodations to continue working remotely in some capacity...
The 11th Circuit (which has appellate jurisdiction over federal trial courts in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia) recently issued an important decision about when an employee is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA...