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Dallas EEOC settles pregnancy bias case with Texas employer

In mid-May, the Dallas office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) settled a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit with a Texas-based employer. It has been a while since we looked at the Pregnancy...

Jul 31, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

Unpacking work restrictions for minors

Q We are a moving and storage company with offices in multiple states. If we were to hire minors (say 16 or 17), are there any limitations to the hours and duties they could perform? A Generally speaking, the hour...

Jul 31, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

OFCCP issues new CSAL list

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently released its first new fiscal year (FY) 2021 Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL). The list identifies 750 supply and service establishments...

Jul 31, 2021 · Federal Employment Law Insider

Southeast state law varies on payment of deceased employee’s wages

What happens if one of your employees unfortunately passes away while still actively employed? Should you stop the direct deposit of his final check until a beneficiary is verified? Since paycheck laws can vary, here are...

SCOTUS limits scope of cybersecurity law

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a ruling interpreting the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 federal statute that imposes civil and criminal liability for unauthorized computer access. In...

Jul 25, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

Answers to employers' FAQs about face masks at work

After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reduced its mask requirements for people fully vaccinated from COVID-19, we've seen a significant uptick in the number of employers calling us with...

The never-ending story: minimum wage and task-based compensation

California employees are entitled to minimum wage for all hours worked regardless of whether they receive additional compensation for tasks performed during the course of employment. Wage borrowing, where productive time...

Jul 25, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · California

Clearing haze over marijuana use in California

California employers have been wondering whether they can continue to enforce their drug-free workplace policies now that marijuana is legal for both recreational and medicinal purposes. A recent federal district court...

Jul 25, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · California

California Supreme Court rules break premiums based on regular rate, not hourly rate

On July 15, 2021, the California Supreme Court rejected the view that premiums for missed meal and rest breaks are paid at the employee’s base hourly rate of pay rather than the “regular rate of pay” used to calculate...

Jul 25, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · California

The reluctant employee

The June jobs report showed a healthy gain of 850,000 new jobs, and employers are scrambling to fill them. We still have 6.8 million fewer jobs than before the COVID-19 pandemic, so job growth should stay on a rising...

Jul 11, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · California

California court sides with B-Dubs on overtime calculation

Buffalo Wild Wings employees recently alleged the restaurant chain violated the law by using the "rate-in-effect" method rather than the "weighted average" method in calculating their overtime rate of pay. In a win for...

Jul 11, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · California

8 years of litigation yield only $32 award plus attorneys' fees

This looked like a case about severe sexual harassment, but it turned into the smallest of wage and hour cases on the merits and a big battle about attorneys' fees and costs. Shocking tale of two-hour employment This...

Jul 11, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · California

Biden FY 2022 budget portends increased workplace enforcement

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) budget proposed by President Joe Biden requests an average 14% increase over previous years with its key enforcement agencies receiving the largest appropriations. Independent...

Jun 30, 2021 · Federal Employment Law Insider

2021 Arkansas General Assembly has now adjourned: Here's what passed

Just beofre the 93rd Arkansas General Assembly adjourned recently, a late surge of activity resulted in several bills being passed into law. Below are the significant employment-related measures that made the cut. Any...

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Minnesota company's H-2B program violations result in debarment, fines

The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has been increasing its compliance enforcement in the past couple of years. Recently, the WHD found a Minnesota lawn care and snow removal company...