In a widely anticipated but nonetheless controversial move, President Joe Biden nominated David Weil to be the administrator of the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Labor Department. Weil will assume responsibilities...
Employment Law Letter
Employers are under increasing pressure to make public workforce diversity data. The press and other stakeholders are turning to the Freedom of Information Action (FOIA) to force the disclosure of such data by demanding...
If the Paycheck Fairness Act had passed the Senate (see "Pay Equity Corner" on pg. 4), the Act specifically included requirements that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Office of Federal...
On Friday, May 28, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its COVID-19 Technical Assistance (https://bit.ly/2SA7IX7). In its long-awaited return-to-work guidance, the EEOC answered some but not all of...
The New Jersey Appellate Division recently revived a sales consultant's hostile work environment claim against a car dealership after the case had previously been dismissed in the employer's favor. The employee claimed...
Virginia's wave of employee-friendly legislation continues. In 2020, the General Assembly greatly expanded the scope of the Commonwealth's employment discrimination laws and began the process of hiking its minimum wage...
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...
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...