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

by Tammy Binford

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Corrections officer shoots hole in state’s accommodation denial

Employers often hear repeated recommendations to have detailed written policies and to ensure those policies are followed. Typically, you can overcome significant consequences by consistently enforcing your policies and...

Feb 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming

Rudy G.’s punitive damages verdict offers expensive lessons

I’ve previously written about the Rudy Giuliani defamation lawsuit and applicable lessons. The jury’s total verdict against Rudy G. was $148,000,000, including $75,000,00 in punitive damages—a whopper for sure. This is...

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

Cracking the code: Adding bonuses to FLSA overtime calculations

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay overtime to nonexempt employees based on their regular pay rate and the number of hours worked in a workweek. While this sounds straightforward on paper...

Feb 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

EEOC sues Meatheads

Do you have any idea how long I’ve waited for the chance to use the term “meatheads” in the headline of an article? Thanks to an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) age discrimination lawsuit against a moving...

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

Initiative petition to increase Oklahoma’s minimum wage faces legal challenge

On October 27, 2023, two individuals represented by attorney Melanie Wilson Rughani of the Oklahoma-based law firm Crowe & Dunlevy filed Initiative Petition No. 446, which proposes a dramatic increase in Oklahoma’s...

Feb 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma

Employee benefit rules: Gifts that keep on giving

As you look back on 2023 and ahead to 2024, there are so many compliance-related items to consider relating to your employee benefit plans. The rules you’re supposed to comply with keep growing and growing—they seem like...

Feb 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota

New and immediate action items for 2024

Notice of void non competition clauses. As you know, most noncompete agreements in California are unlawful and unenforceable. Nonetheless, some employers have used a tactic of maintaining unenforceable noncompete...

Jan 26, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California

Police quotas are ticket to liability

Ordinarily, insurance policies don’t cover willful improper conduct by the insured. At the same time, if an employer retaliates against employees who blow the whistle on unlawful behavior, or who refuse to engage in...

Jan 12, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California

Supreme Court decisions will reshape workplace and society at-large

To many in the country, the U.S. Supreme Court’s last session was among the most impactful in decades, causing changes to how we use affirmative action in university admissions, applying developing ideas of diversity...

Jan 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

NLRB, unbowed, faces legal and fiscal hurdles

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to be the most activist and controversial of the federal executive agencies. Its open advocacy for unions has brought urgent criticism from employer groups and...

Jan 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

EU lawmakers reach agreement on AI Act

On December 8, 2023, European lawmakers completed principal negotiations for the European Union’s (EU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. The comprehensive legislation imposes restrictions on companies developing and...

Jan 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

New Washington law protects job applicants’ off-duty marijuana use

Beginning in 2024, both Washington and California will prohibit employers from basing hiring decisions on an applicant’s legal marijuana use. What is prohibited? Effective January 1, 2024, employers are prohibited from...

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

New minimum wage, paid sick leave laws in WA effective January 1

Multiple new laws will take effect in Washington state beginning January 2024, bringing changes to the state’s minimum wage laws and adding requirements under the state’s Paid Sick Leave Law. Minimum wage increases at...

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

As the ranks of older workers grows, employers urged to capitalize on the trend

It’s become a mantra resounding from more and more employers: Good help is hard to find. For years now, employers have bemoaned their inability to recruit and retain workers for the full range of employment, everything...

Jan 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California · New York · Texas · 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

Health experts tout importance of protecting employees’ mental health

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported recently that 12 billion working days are lost every year around the world to depression and anxiety. That results in 1 trillion U.S. dollars per year of lost productivity...