The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has sued the state of Oregon over its employer meetings law, which prohibits discrimination against employees who refuse to participate in employer-required meetings about...
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The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all New Mexico employers) recently upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a surgeon against the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) for requiring...
Many Missouri employers conduct business in multiple states. What happens when a company is based in Missouri, but its employees work out-of-state? Do they have an absolute right to sue for alleged violations of the...
Q Our school administration has an employee who works as a paraprofessional for 32.5 hours per week and as a bus driver for 20 hours per week. Can we separate her job into two positions that would each require 40 hours...
As busy professionals, HR managers have hundreds of pages of paper that cross their desks each week. A recent Montana Supreme Court case highlights the importance of paying attention to legal papers. The court refused to...
New Jersey's Division on Civil Rights (DCR) recently issued its recommendations on preventing and eliminating sexual harassment in the state. At about the same time, Governor Phil Murphy released proposed legislation...
Informed employers know they must pay nonexempt employees for all hours actually worked. If an employee works unapproved hours or overtime, the company must still pay for the time, but they may discipline the worker for...
On January 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) published a new final rule on joint employer status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in the Federal Registry, effective March...
Can robots harass humans? And if they do, who is responsible? The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace is stirring up questions about what happens when a programmed bot offends one of your...
Whether it's a lunchbox, laptop case, or briefcase, most people bring a personal bag to work. To deter theft, some brick-and-mortar retailers and warehouses require employees to go through security checks of their...
Whether it's a lunchbox, laptop case, or briefcase, most people bring a personal bag to work. To deter theft, some brick-and-mortar retailers and warehouses require employees to go through security checks of their...
Sometimes, trying to fix a wrong just causes an employer to dig a deeper hole. Or the mistake is fixed only partially. In the following case, an employer's self-audit of its pay practices resulted in correcting an error...
Recently, a TikTok video of a Wendy's employee taking a bath in the restaurant sink went viral on the Internet. Unsurprisingly, the employee was promptly fired. In our age of mass social media activities, the incident...
As you may recall, in May 2019, Governor Larry Hogan vetoed the statewide “ban the box” legislation enacted by the Maryland General Assembly during last year's term. The law would have required Maryland employers with 15...
The Internal Revenue Service released the redesigned 2020 Federal W-4 Form. The updated form implements the changes initiated by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and is meant to reduce complexity for both employees and...