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

by Tammy Binford

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Kinder, gentler PAGA might be in the works

The Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) is kind of like Godzilla. It arose as an artificial nuclearization of our labor code and then kept growing to obtain powers that weren’t fully imagined or understood at the start...

Jun 27, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California

Court of appeal creates certain Supreme Court showdown

The employer and employee signed an arbitration agreement and agreed thereafter that their dispute should be resolved in arbitration. As we have seen so many times before, the employer was a few weeks late paying the...

Jun 13, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California

Workplace violence safety requirements just weeks away

We have been reminding you for the past eight months of the new California Labor Code sections 6401.7 and 6401.9 creating a July 1, 2024, deadline to have your workplace violence prevention program in place. This...

Jun 13, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · California

FTC votes to ban noncompetes

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted, 3 to 2, to ban nearly all noncompete agreements. The ban is scheduled to become effective on September 4, 2024. Whether the rule will become effective remains...

Jun 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

Department of Labor publishes new overtime regulations

On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-delayed final rule—Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees...

Jun 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

NLRB decisions face skeptical courts

During the Biden administration, an ambitious and aggressive National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued several precedent-breaking rulings addressing issues as broad as protected speech and union representation to...

Jun 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

OFCCP and EEOC leaders offer insights on range of issues

In early May, employers had a chance to hear from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) Acting Director Michele Hodge and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels at...

Jun 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

OFCCP issues guidance on AI

On April 30, 2024, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced the release of a new artificial intelligence (AI) landing page. Following the link, the OFCCP provides 10 FAQs following by...

Jun 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

EEOC issues final harassment guidance

On April 29, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its final harassment guidance, updating the previous version with Bostock, #MeToo, and remote work issues. The most controversial guidance...

Jun 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

The View from K Street: Severed from responsibility

However the current era is characterized by future historians, political commentators will have to consider our piece of time as one that shifted the center of power from the Imperial Presidency to the Omnipotent...

Jun 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

How can employers hold employees liable for property damage?

Q We provide laptop computers to all our personnel. Many employees damage them during employment or return them with damage upon leaving employment. What are our options for recouping from employees the costs of...

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