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

by Tammy Binford

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Know your rights, responsibilities when conducting criminal background checks

Q How far back are we allowed to verify information (both criminal and previous employer references) when conducting a background check? A Idaho and federal law permit you to obtain, with a signed release, a criminal...

May 31, 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

How to balance politics, free speech, and workplace needs

Q How should we handle politics in the workplace? We've had one employee posting campaign stickers and another taking them down. A It depends on what state you’re in. In Connecticut, a state law makes it unlawful for...

May 31, 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

2nd Circuit enforces noncompete in spat over ownership, access to social media accounts

In a unique case involving ownership and access to social media accounts, the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals (which handles federal appeals from Connecticut) recently enforced a noncompete agreement against one of a...

May 31, 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

Determining ‘wages’ under CO’s FAMLI program

Q How are “wages” determined for covered employees for Colorado’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance Act (FAMLI) program premium assessment? A Wages reportable to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s...

May 31, 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

Glass houses: Employee’s own unprofessional conduct kills hostile environment claim

The New Jersey Appellate Division recently upheld a trial court’s dismissal of a former bartender’s hostile work environment and gender discrimination claims partly on the grounds she partook in the “pejorative language...

May 31, 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

Check contract to see if you owe exempt union members holiday pay

Q We are a public employer and have several exempt union employees who came in to shovel snow on a holiday they were supposed to have off. Our union members normally get overtime pay if they work on a holiday, but these...

May 31, 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

Make sure your background checks follow state, federal restrictions

Q How far back are we allowed to verify information (both criminal and previous employer references) when conducting a background check? A Massachusetts has no limit in regard to checking references from previous...

May 31, 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

How to protect your TWC tax rate from chargebacks

Despite the current labor shortage, some employers may be suffering the lingering effects of increased unemployment claims from prior years. Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) unemployment chargebacks can affect an...

May 31, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

Public employer alert: new way to sue police officers?

A number of subscribers are public employers whose employees as well as themselves can be sued for all sorts of reasons not applicable to private-sector companies. Here’s one potential lawsuit claim: If a police officer...

May 31, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

New law blocks arbitration of sexual assault, harassment claims

Arbitration agreements have long been a standard practice across all industries. With the signing of H.R. 4445 into law by President Joe Biden, however, arbitration agreements are no longer enforceable against sexual...

May 31, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

College shoots ‘airball’ in basketball coach’s FMLA lawsuit

An “airball,” or a basketball shot that misses the backboard, rim, and net entirely, sums up our appeals court’s recent opinion about the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) retaliation and interference claims filed by a...

May 31, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

FMLA leave total based on number of hours worked in 12 weeks

Q An employee whose work hours are based on nine-hour days (45 hours per week) is on parental leave. Would her Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave end when she reaches 480 hours or 12 weeks (which would be 540...

May 31, 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

Summer doldrums in May

It’s almost like those scenes in sci-fi movies where some alien cloud stops everyone midstep. A kind of stasis seems to have overtaken the government. With so many crises of various significance at hand—Ukraine...

May 31, 2022 · Federal Employment Law Insider

OFCCP issues new CSAL

On Friday, May 20, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a new Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for supply and service contractors, which is comprised of 400 federal...

May 31, 2022 · Federal Employment Law Insider

Senate HELP Committee holds hearing on commissioner nominee

On May 10, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden’s nominee for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) commissioner, Kalpana Kotagal...

May 31, 2022 · Federal Employment Law Insider