Employment Law Letter

When employees ‘disclose’ violation already known to employer

After an Orange County nightclub employee complained she was owed unpaid wages, her boss fired her, ordered her to leave and never to return, and threatened to report her to immigration authorities. The California...

May 29, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Back to the future: Signing a post-termination settlement affirmation before termination

The timing of settlement agreements has always been tricky business. You have to provide some time to consider it, a length sometimes set by statute at 21 or 45 days. But you also can’t have it signed too early and run...

May 28, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Ministerial exemption might not protect religious school from age discrimination

Religion holds a special place among state and federal constitutional rights, and nowhere do religious rights hold more strongly than in the right to hire and fire ministerial employees. Employment decisions regarding...

May 14, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Hospital’s denial of vaccine exemption upheld

An employee of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center didn’t want to get a flu vaccine and obtained a physician’s certification that exempted her from the requirement. Her employer’s internal exemption review committee denied the...

May 14, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

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May 08, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Mid-Atlantic · Virginia

NYSDOL adopts updated model sexual harassment prevention policy

On April 11, 2023, the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) adopted an updated model sexual harassment prevention policy. As we previously reported (see “NYSDOL publishes proposed changes to sexual harassment...

Apr 30, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · New York

NLRB places new restrictions on severance agreements

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently decided McLaren Macomb, which relates to the structure and content of severance agreements and their enforceability under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)...

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Iowa food service director makes losing whistleblower claim

The Iowa Court of Appeals recently heard a case from a worker who sued his former employer claiming he was fired because he was a whistleblower. The core of the case goes to the issue of the validity of the separation...

New Illinois law mandates paid leave for any reason

The Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers (PLFAW) Act was passed by the Illinois legislature in January and was signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker on March 13, 2023. Effective January 1, 2024, it will require nearly...

Illinois Supreme Court scans BIPA menu, orders big fines

Illinois employers who use employees’ fingerprints, face scans, or other biometric identifiers to enable workers to access timekeeping, payroll, IT, or other systems have long been on notice that the Illinois Biometric...

CT Supreme Court clarifies scope of ‘public policy’ exception to at-will employment

The Connecticut Supreme Court recently decided an interesting employment case about the “public policy” exception to the “at-will employment” doctrine. Public policy exception to ‘at-will employment’ As we’ve written...

States that still require paid sick leave for COVID-19

Q: Do any states still require employers to provide paid COVID-19 sick leave in 2023? Yes. As of March 15, 2023, states, counties, or cities that still require an employer to provide paid COVID-19 sick leave include...

Subjective criteria for hiring or reduction in force decisions may be problematic

Mergers and acquisitions bring lots of financial opportunity, but they can sometimes result in upheaval in the workforce as the new entity determines whether it will operate the business differently from its predecessor...

Legislative update on 2023 Arkansas General Assembly

The 94th Arkansas General Assembly is now in session, and bills related to employment are being introduced. Of course, the mere introduction of a bill doesn’t mean that it will ultimately be reported out of committee...

5th Circuit vacates order denying injunction in biotechnology trade secret dispute

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans (whose rulings apply to all Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas employers) recently tossed out an order from a Texas-based district court denying a temporary court order...

Arkansas Stephen W. Jones of Jack Nelson Jones, PLLC, and Audra Hamilton and Nathan Read of Mitchell Williams
Kansas Boyd A. Byers, Teresa L. Shulda, and Tara Eberline of Foulston Siefkin LLP
Missouri Robert A. Kaiser, Jeremy Brenner, and Ida S. Shafaie of Armstrong Teasdale LLP
Oklahoma Charles S. Plumb, Courtney Bru, Paul Ross, Philip Bruce, and Jacob Crawford of McAfee & Taft

Delaware Lauren Russell of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
Maryland Steven E. Bers and David M. Stevens of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P.
New Jersey John C. Petrella and Dina M. Mastellone of Genova Burns LLC
Pennsylvania Dena Calo, Lisa Koblin, Carolyn Pellegrini, and Zachary Kimmel of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
Virginia Jonathan Mook and Bernard J. DiMuro of DiMuroGinsberg PC

Illinois Steven L. Brenneman and Kelly Smith-Haley of Fox, Swibel, Levin & Carroll, LLP
Indiana Brian R. Garrison of Faegre Drinker
Michigan Gary S. Fealk and John T. Below of Bodman PLC
Ohio Fred G. Pressley, Jr., Jourdan D. Day, and John M. Stephen of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
Wisconsin Saul Glazer, Troy D. Thompson, Michael J. Westcott, Leslie A. Sammon, and Heath Straka of Axley Brynelson LLP

Kentucky Richard S. Cleary, John T. Lovett, Robert D. Hudson, and Kathleen Biggs Wright of Frost Brown Todd LLC
North Carolina Richard L. Rainey of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
South Carolina Richard J. Morgan, James K. Gilliam, Jonathan C. Eggert, and Chandler E. Aragona of Burr & Forman LLP
Tennessee Kara E. Shea and David Johnson of Butler Snow LLP
West Virginia Larry J. Rector and Allison B. Williams of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Alabama Albert L. Vreeland and David J. Middlebrooks of Lehr Middlebrooks Vreeland & Thompson, P.C.
Florida G. Thomas Harper of The Law and Mediation Offices of G. Thomas Harper, LLC, Lisa Berg and Andrew Rodman of Stearns Weaver Miller, and Robert J. Sniffen and Jeff Slanker of Sniffen & Spellman, P.A.
Georgia Raanon Gal of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Glianny Fagundo of Thompson Hine LLP and Chris Butler of the Chris Butler Firm
Louisiana H. Mark Adams and Jennifer Kogos of Jones Walker LLP
Mississippi Martin J. Regimbal of The Kullman Firm

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