George Vassos encourages employers to erect exterior signs about their mask policy.
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LaToi Mayo suggests that senior leaders can no longer sit on the sidelines and ignore social justice issues in the workplace.
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(September 4, 2020) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has earned the 2020 Law Firm Diversity Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). The firm will be honored virtually during NAPABA’s annual convention and gala reception on November 7, 2020.
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We’re in limbo as the ride-hailing company spends millions fighting a new state law.
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Last week, in its Cybersecurity Summer Newsletter, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) published best practices for creating an IT asset inventory list to assist healthcare providers and business associates in understanding where electronic protected health information (ePHI) is located within their organization, and improve HIPAA Security Rule compliance. OCR
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In this second of a three-part series, Littler Los Angeles Shareholder and trial attorney Helene Wasserman interviews Dr. Dan Gallipeau, co-founder and President of Dispute Dynamics, a nationally-recognized jury consulting firm, about how the lens through which jurors are evaluating evidence has changed in this COVID era, and what
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Some 50,000 foreign nationals with approved Lawful Permanent Residency (Green Card) applications have been waiting for months to receive their cards, which provide proof of lawful permanent resident status. Without these cards, the foreign nationals will have difficulty travelling internationally and proving employment authorization. Causing further stress to these individuals
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The state of Georgia has had a lactation break law on the books for quite some time, but with House Bill 1090 the legislature made some important changes, effective August 5, 2020. As most employers know, the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides lactation break requirements for employers, so
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In April and June, numerous Presidential Proclamations suspended entry of thousands of legal immigrants and nonimmigrants least until December 31, 2020, using the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason. This is despite the fact that legal immigration has been proven to bring economic growth.
One proclamation affects family-based, diversity visa, and
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On August 31, 2020, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued four opinion letters, one of which, Opinion Letter FLSA2020-11, addressed whether certain employees in the oilfield services industry were exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The specific
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(September 3, 2020) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has been named the recipient of the 2020 California Minority Counsel Program’s (CMCP) Drucilla Stender Ramey Majority-Owned Law Firm Award for the second time. The firm will be presented with the award during the
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Due to the plateau of COVID-19 cases in Michigan, on September 3, 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-176 to “carefully and deliberately relax some restrictions.” Most notably, the Order permits organized sports practices and competitions to resume and allows for the reopening of gymnasiums, fitness facilities, and