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Court challenge looms, but employers urged to prepare for new overtime rule

by Tammy Binford

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Employers behaving badly pay dearly to EEOC

The Phoenix District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which covers Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and part of New Mexico, recently obtained two substantial settlements in lawsuits the...

Aug 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

Beginning the interactive process is as simple as starting a dialogue

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with a disability. When employees request an accommodation, employers are required to engage in...

Aug 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

Court ruling puts FTC noncompete ban on life support

On July 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a preliminary court order halting enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule prohibiting noncompete agreements for...

Aug 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia

Jury duty is inevitable, but pay for missed work is not

Q We have an employee who was summoned for jury duty. Do we, as an employer, have to pay them for the days they’re missing work? Jury duty is an unavoidable but important part of our legal system. It is also time...

Aug 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia

Future of noncompetes hangs in the balance: Overview of FTC’s final rule

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule banning noncompete agreements for almost all employees of for-profit employers after concluding that noncompete agreements are unfair methods of...

Aug 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia

Supreme Court clarifies standard for injunctions under NLRA

On June 13, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an 8-to-1 decision in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney, which clarified the legal standard—and made it uniform nationwide—when federal courts are asked to grant a preliminary...

Aug 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi

Updated walkaround rule: OSHA allows union access during site inspections

On May 31, 2024, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) revisions to the “walkaround rule” went into effect. The walkaround rule sets forth a process for OSHA to conduct on-site inspections and...

Aug 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin

Answering questions about pay obligations for jury duty and two weeks' notice

Q We have an employee who was summoned for jury duty. Do we, as an employer, have to pay them for the days they’re missing work? In Mississippi, employers don’t have to pay employees for responding to a summons for jury...

Aug 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi

Chicago’s new paid leave and paid sick leave law now in effect

Effective July 1, 2024, Chicago employers will need to comply with the city of Chicago’s paid leave and paid sick and safe leave ordinance. The ordinance requires Chicago employers and employers with Chicago-based remote...

Aug 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin

Be careful you don’t inadvertently violate other states’ wage transparency laws

Recently, in the first of a series of articles focusing on companies’ online employment recruitment practices, we wrote about a company’s need to consider what states require an employer to include (or prohibit an...

Jul 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont

Understanding the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

The federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) became law in June 2023. The Act requires a covered employer to provide reasonable accommodation(s) to a qualified employee or applicant who has known limitations related...

Jul 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

Save some for later: Splitting FMLA parental leave

Q If an employee takes Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to bond with his new child, would he be able to take additional bonding time later the same year if he still had FMLA time available? Potentially! The FMLA...

Jul 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming

Lack of key paragraph costs Texas employer $749,906!

I am sometimes asked what lawyers really do for a living? My answer—to hope for the best, plan for the worst. The worst was definitely not planned for in a recent case from Harris County. Two-page employment agreement...

Jul 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

Minnesota Legislature amends ESST statute

In the closing minutes of the 2024 legislative session, the Minnesota Legislature passed a 2,800-page bill that included several significant changes to the Minnesota’s Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) law. The law made...

Jul 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota

Colorado passes law to regulate AI use in consequential decision making

On May 17, 2024, the Colorado Legislature passed Senate Bill (SB) 24-205 to protect employees and consumers by prohibiting developers of high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems from engaging in “algorithmic...

Jul 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming