Michael Lotito says the drop in union membership last year should cause some soul searching for organized labor.
Law360 Employment Authority
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Archives for January 28, 2022
Compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations? Mostly on paper
Pawel Sych dissects a regulation that will require vaccinations for Poland’s healthcare workers and what it will mean for healthcare facilities and their employees.
Gazeta Prawna
Beltway Buzz, January 28, 2022
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C. could impact your business.
Planned redundancies drop 86 percent from COVID peak, data shows
Raoul Parekh explains that omicron has reduced many employers’ confidence, but they should be cautious in making employees redundant rather than using furloughs.
People Management
The critical points to pass the 'job ITV'
Iván López García de la Riva gives his thoughts on what companies need to do to adopt the new labor regulations in Spain.
Cinco Días
How to handle the end of temporary layoffs
Barry Kuretzky discusses how courts will consider employers’ temporary layoffs during COVID, as well as how employers should handle work refusals.
Canadian HR Reporter
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O-1 Visas Abound: USCIS Provides Detailed Guidance on O-1 Visa Eligibility
USCIS’s new guidance for O-1 petitions provides a detailed overview of the different O-1 classifications: O-1A, O-1B Arts, and O-1B Motion Picture and Television (“MPTV”). The guidance also provides detailed standards for adjudicating O-1 petitions under each O-1 classification and the use of comparable evidence to satisfy one or more
4 Discrimination Questions Employers Have About COVID-19
Jim Paretti explains why he believes the EEOC has done a good job defining when, particularly long-term COVID, can be a disability.
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DOL Workplace Posters: Same Requirements, Higher Consequences for Noncompliance
Most employers are familiar with the long-standing U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) requirement to post summaries of applicable federal labor and employment laws in the workplace. As a general matter, employers must place posters where they are conspicuous to or “clearly seen” by employees, often in the break room or
Data Privacy Day Around the World: January 28, 2022
In celebration of Data Privacy Day, we are highlighting some of these laws as well as some global data privacy and protection questions, expectations, and trends that lie ahead in 2022. Without further ado, below are some of the privacy laws from around the world that we anticipate will go
Littler Earns Top Score in Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index
(January 27, 2022) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, received a perfect score of 100% on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.
Biden’s Shot-or-Test Rule Abandoned After Supreme Court Loss
Alka Ramchandani-Raj explains why the withdrawal of the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test ETS doesn’t prevent OSHA from continuing to pursue a permanent version of the standard.
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Effects of Supreme Court ruling on OSHA mandate linger
Devjani Mishra weighs in on how the Supreme Court’s decision to stay the vaccination-and-testing emergency temporary standard may affect workplaces.
McKnights Senior Living
Validation of the labor reform in Congress: litmus test for the credibility of collective bargaining
Javier Thibault weighs in on the Spanish parliament’s recent labor reform agreement and its effects on the recovery and the labor market.
I Was Ditched by an Employee for a “Doctors Appointment”
I manage field sales reps. I flew in for a scheduled “field ride” with an employee and upon arrival she let me know that she had a “doctor’s appointment” and wouldn’t be available for the field ride.
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