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Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: New York - Wage & Hour Tags: New York City
The New York City Council has pushed back implementation of the salary transparency law from May 15, 2022, to November 1, 2022.
On January 15, 2022, New York City enacted legislation requiring all covered employers to include a minimum and maximum salary for the position advertised. The new law was set to
Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: HR - Privacy & Surveillance
Since 2017, more than 1,500 class action lawsuits have been filed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and the cases show no signs of slowing. These claims continue to vex Illinois businesses, and multi-state companies that have operations within Illinois.
Several other states have enacted biometric privacy laws,
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: HR - Drugs & Alcohol
The last few years have provided numerous reasons for employers to reevaluate drug testing practices—from the rapid development of job protections for medical and recreational marijuana use, to the increase in drug testing-based litigation, to pandemic-related remote work, to staffing challenges. Ogletree Deakins’ April 2022 report, Strategies and Benchmarks for
Posted: | Littler Category: HR - COVID, Coronavirus
As we enter the third year of the global COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. businesses are implementing long-delayed return-to-office plans and hoping to establish a new equilibrium. Public health experts, economists and policymakers increasingly speak of “endemicity,” a phase in which COVID-19 transmission rates fall to a constant but manageable
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Evil HR Lady
Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter will come with turnover. Some employees will leave, and there is nothing anyone can do about this. That’s normal in the case of new management. But, Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been anything but ordinary.
The NY Post describes Twitter employees as “apoplectic,” while
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: California - Cal/OSHA
As we previously reported, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board recently voted to adopt the proposed revisions to California’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standards (ETS). Reports initially stated that the Office of Administrative Law would likely approve the language for implementation by May 5, 2022. This date has since
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: New York - General
Under an amendment to the New York Civil Rights Law that will take effect on May 7, 2022, private-sector employers that monitor their employees’ use of telephones, emails, and the internet must provide notice of such monitoring. The following provides highlights of the new law.
Posted: | Littler Category: New York - Wage & Hour Tags: New York City
Four months ago, New York City became the second jurisdiction in the country to require employers to include the minimum and maximum potential salaries for open positions in job postings. While passed with the intention of providing applicants greater transparency about potential pay (and to narrow the pay gap),
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: New York - Wage & Hour Tags: New York City
On April 28, 2022, the New York City Council passed Int. No. 134-A, which revises Local Law 32, New York City’s previously enacted salary disclosure law. In order to become law, the bill must be signed by New York City Mayor Eric Adams. While the mayor has thirty days to
Posted: | Littler Category: Law Firm News
Eli Freedberg explains that there are lots of gray areas for employers in a New York City law that requires them to post pay ranges in their job ads.
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Posted: | Littler Category: Law Firm News
Allison Williams explores collective action counsel’s duty to conduct a reasonable inquiry into the merits of an opt-in plaintiff’s claim prior to filing a consent form on their behalf.
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Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: Title VII - EEO-1
The 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 reporting period is currently underway. Most employers with 100 or more employees (and most federal contractors with 50 or more employees) must submit their 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 Report by Tuesday, May 17, 2022. In past years, for various reasons, the EEOC has extended this
Posted: | Littler Category: HR - Privacy & Surveillance
The European Commission and the United States have announced a new data transfer mechanism, following the invalidation of Privacy Shield in July 2020.
Background
As data privacy experts may remember, in July 2020 the Privacy Shield data transfer mechanism (which applied to transfers of European data to accredited US
Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: Law Firm News
Richard Vitarelli comments on the growing number of union-related inquiries labor and employment law firms are seeing from clients in “Inside Track: Is It Time to Add a Labor Attorney to Your In-House Team?” published by Law.com.
Posted: | Goldberg Segalla Category: New Jersey - General
In New Jersey, the applicable 2020 law (see, N.J.S.A. 34:15-31.11 et seq.) states that if an individual contracts COVID-19, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the disease is work-related and fully compensable.