Employment Law Letter

Considerations when employees pronounce their pronouns in email signatures

He/him. She/her. They/them. With increasing public attention over the past few years to the topics of gender identity, gender fluidity, and the rights of transgender individuals, it has become more common for people to...

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‘Full and frank’: effectively leveraging the attorney-client privilege

HR professionals routinely use legal counsel to obtain advice on compliance issues, risk mitigation, and many other legal issues. Whether it arises in the context of a one-off accommodation question or a months-long...

Restaurant and service dog: ADA cautionary tale for employers

A restaurant in Burlington, Vermont, recently made headlines after refusing to seat a customer with a service dog. The restaurant owner cited an incident in which a previous patron’s dog attacked a neighboring table. In...

New DOL guidance addresses mental health leave under FMLA

The past few years have heightened feelings of stress and isolation for many people, and with the seemingly continuous news cycle of incidents of mass violence, mental health has taken a much-needed place in the...

Importance of responding to (and paying) workers’ comp premiums

In North Dakota, like all states, it’s extremely important for employers to properly identify (and classify) their employees and secure proper workers’ compensation insurance coverage. North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and...

SCOTUS: No emotional distress damages under certain antidiscrimination statutes

The U.S. Supreme Court recently resolved a long-standing question many courts have wrestled with by holding that a person suing under the four Spending Clause statutes couldn’t recover damages for emotional distress...

Education Department proposes Title IX changes to expand protections

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released its long-awaited proposed amendments to the civil rights law. These proposed changes...

Handbook updates Arkansas employers should consider

Arkansas’s unemployment rates are at the lowest we’ve seen in decades, which means employers across the state are onboarding new employees at an exciting pace. As businesses review their new-hire paperwork, many have had...

D.C. Circuit allows for Title VII liability without any tangible harm

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently issued a decision that overturned over 20 years of law regarding the type of employment action that is compensable under Title VII of the Civil...

Minimum wage increase may affect when employees get overtime

As most employers are aware, Nevada has a two-tier minimum wage system, depending on whether the employer offers qualifying health benefits. Following Assembly Bill 456 (passed by the Nevada Legislature in 2019), each of...

Fired employee with bad attitude fails on religious discrimination claim

A car salesman who was terminated following customer complaints of a bad attitude cannot get to a jury on his religious discrimination claim according to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all...

COVID-19 Employment Rights Act rolled back

On Monday, July 11, Michigan’s three COVID-19-era laws were rolled back with Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s signature. This includes an amendment and repeal of the COVID-19 Employment Rights Act. Employees will be able to...

Aug 31, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · Great Lakes · Wisconsin

Court expands paid sick time requirements and increases Michigan’s minimum wage

In a major development for Michigan employers, a Michigan Court of Claims ruling has invalidated the Michigan Paid Medical Leave Act (PMLA). It also reinstituted the Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act (IWOWA) and...

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1st Circuit tosses appeal of employees banned from wearing BLM attire at work

Last year, a federal district court in Massachusetts was faced with determining whether Whole Foods and Amazon retaliated and discriminated against employees who were sent home without pay or otherwise disciplined for...

Aug 31, 2022 · Employment Law Letter · New England · Massachusetts

Request for location transfer may be valid accommodation

In general, Massachusetts law doesn’t require an employer to offer an employee a transfer to a different vacant position as an accommodation under M.G.L. c. 151B, which is like its federal counterpart, the Americans with...

Arkansas Stephen W. Jones of Jack Nelson Jones, PLLC, and Audra Hamilton and Nathan Read of Mitchell Williams
Kansas Boyd A. Byers, Teresa L. Shulda, and Tara Eberline of Foulston Siefkin LLP
Missouri Robert A. Kaiser, Jeremy Brenner, and Ida S. Shafaie of Armstrong Teasdale LLP
Oklahoma Charles S. Plumb, Courtney Bru, Paul Ross, Philip Bruce, and Jacob Crawford of McAfee & Taft

Delaware Lauren Russell of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
Maryland Steven E. Bers and David M. Stevens of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P.
New Jersey John C. Petrella and Dina M. Mastellone of Genova Burns LLC
Pennsylvania Dena Calo, Lisa Koblin, Carolyn Pellegrini, and Zachary Kimmel of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
Virginia Jonathan Mook and Bernard J. DiMuro of DiMuroGinsberg PC

Illinois Steven L. Brenneman and Kelly Smith-Haley of Fox, Swibel, Levin & Carroll, LLP
Indiana Brian R. Garrison of Faegre Drinker
Michigan Gary S. Fealk and John T. Below of Bodman PLC
Ohio Fred G. Pressley, Jr., Jourdan D. Day, and John M. Stephen of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
Wisconsin Saul Glazer, Troy D. Thompson, Michael J. Westcott, Leslie A. Sammon, and Heath Straka of Axley Brynelson LLP

Kentucky Richard S. Cleary, John T. Lovett, Robert D. Hudson, and Kathleen Biggs Wright of Frost Brown Todd LLC
North Carolina Richard L. Rainey of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
South Carolina Richard J. Morgan, James K. Gilliam, Jonathan C. Eggert, and Chandler E. Aragona of Burr & Forman LLP
Tennessee Kara E. Shea and David Johnson of Butler Snow LLP
West Virginia Larry J. Rector and Allison B. Williams of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Alabama Albert L. Vreeland and David J. Middlebrooks of Lehr Middlebrooks Vreeland & Thompson, P.C.
Florida G. Thomas Harper of The Law and Mediation Offices of G. Thomas Harper, LLC, Lisa Berg and Andrew Rodman of Stearns Weaver Miller, and Robert J. Sniffen and Jeff Slanker of Sniffen & Spellman, P.A.
Georgia Raanon Gal of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Glianny Fagundo of Thompson Hine LLP and Chris Butler of the Chris Butler Firm
Louisiana H. Mark Adams and Jennifer Kogos of Jones Walker LLP
Mississippi Martin J. Regimbal of The Kullman Firm

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