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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to expand protections against COVID-19 for workers in the healthcare sector. How we got here As soon as Joe...
On June 8, Senate Republicans blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act from advancing to the Senate floor for consideration. The bill, which was aimed at closing the gender pay gap, needed 60 votes to move forward, but it was...
Otto von Bismarck noted that "politics is the art of the possible, the attainable." No one seems to have let our politicians in on that piece of wisdom. Senator Mitch McConnell is intent on making almost anything...
In response to mounting pressure from all sides, employers are racing to implement robust diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Increasingly, they're placing a greater emphasis on establishing goals to...
COVID-19 vaccine passports seem to be the hot-button issue of the day. Most of the media coverage and remarks from politicians have focused on companies requiring customers, guests, or students having proof of...
Disney’s next sure-to-be blockbuster movie, Cruella, tells the story of Cruella de Vil, the puppy-stealing psychopath who uses the animals’ fur for her over-the-top, sartorial splendor. She’s deranged and...