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

by Tammy Binford

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2023 may be the year of the big return to the office

The years 2020 through 2022 saw a fundamental shift in where people got their work done, as workers abandoned crowded offices in favor of the comfort of their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. But what will 2023 bring...

Dec 31, 2022 · 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

It’s time to ‘tear the paper ceiling’ and rethink degree requirements

It wasn’t so long ago that employers routinely required a bachelor’s degree for a wide range of positions, even if a four-year degree had little to do with getting the job done. When employers began posting open...

Dec 31, 2022 · 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

Employees say they should be paid for time-consuming prework preparations

For some employees, getting their work computer up, running, and ready to perform each day is a complicated, time-consuming process. When should an employer pay for that daily process? A call center employee’s workday...

Dec 18, 2022 · 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

NLRB warns workplace surveillance is potentially illegal

On October 31, 2022, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a press release to announce her next litigation target. It takes aim at electronic monitoring and “algorithmic management of...

Dec 18, 2022 · 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

Several new employment laws only weeks away

Starting January 1, 2023, a new group of employer obligations will land. Here are some of the most significant. Pay transparency California Senate Bill (SB) 1162 requires employers of 100 or more contract employees to...

Dec 18, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · California

Determining when employers must forfeit bonds in a wage claim

Did an employer’s failure to file a valid notice of appeal from the California Labor Commissioner’s orders bar the trial court from awarding the bonds they posted? Background From 2002 to 2016, Manuel Chavez worked as an...

Dec 18, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · California

Was Price right for the job?

A California trial court determined a school district had good and nondiscriminatory reasons to terminate a part-time substitute teacher and special education aide because she was medically incapable of doing the job...

Dec 04, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · California

Be careful which polls you watch this holiday season

As I sat down to write about the reemergence of holiday office parties, I took to the polls, as I often do. HR managers generally follow a conservative path, wanting some fun but listing heavily toward the side of...

Dec 04, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · California

Arbitration agreement too flawed to be followed

Most every employment arbitration agreement will be declared to be procedurally unconscionable since it generally is provided on a take-it-or-leave-it basis as a condition of the job. If you add any substantive...

Dec 04, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · California

EEOC Chair Burrows provides insight to employers

EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows provided an overview of her priorities to participants of The Institute for Workplace Equality’s virtual Fall Compliance Conference on November 3. The agency is focused on systemic...

Nov 30, 2022 · Federal Employment Law Insider

Likely impact of Supreme Court’s affirmative action decisions

On October 31, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two separate cases on whether race can be a decision in admissions to colleges. The two cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for...

Nov 30, 2022 · Federal Employment Law Insider

Behind NLRB activity, funding crisis looms

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and, particularly, the aggressive actions by General Counsel (GC) Jennifer Abruzzo have properly attracted the attention of unions, employers, and politicians, but all that...

Nov 30, 2022 · Federal Employment Law Insider