Stephen Melnick writes about a case that proves it has never been more important for employers to determine what state’s laws apply to their remote workers.
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Stephen Melnick writes about a case that proves it has never been more important for employers to determine what state’s laws apply to their remote workers.
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By: EEOC Issues Updated COVID-19 Guidance for Employers and the Workplace
On July 12, 2022, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) updated and expanded their technical assistance related to the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing questions related to employers, including modified guidance for (a) screening employees, (b) usage of antibody testing,
Filed Under: Health Care Reform
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (“PCORI”) is an independent nonprofit research organization that funds comparative clinical research, among other things. PCORI is funded through annual fees — provided for in the Affordable Care Act — paid by insurers of fully-insured health plans and sponsors of self-insured health plans, including health
Filed Under: Union Organizing
On July 6, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board published its decision in Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, 371 NLRB No. 112, adopting the administrative law judge’s (ALJ) decision that a carpenters’ union did not unlawfully lay off two employees who raised concerns about safe working conditions during the
Filed Under: General (CA)
In June, San Francisco voters passed Proposition G, a new Public Health Emergency Leave Ordinance. The ordinance requires private employers to provide paid leave to employees for “public health emergencies.” The leave ordinance will be in addition to employer-provided paid leave, such as paid sick leave.
The leave ordinance will
Filed Under: Coronavirus
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) took the position that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standard for conducting medical examinations (job-related and consistent with business necessity) was always met for COVID-19 viral screening testing. On July 12, 2022, the EEOC updated
Filed Under: Employment Eligibility
Filed Under: General (NJ)
In a decision that may be useful to employers drafting severance and litigation settlement agreements in New Jersey, a panel of the New Jersey Appellate Division found that provisions requiring parties not to disparage one another may be included in settlement agreements in employment-related cases.
Filed Under: Coverage (FMLA)
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, the FMLA questions are coming fast and furious: Can an employee take FMLA leave to obtain and recover from an abortion? What if the abortion is elective? And now that abortion will be illegal in at least some states, is travel
Filed Under: HR Headlines
I thought we were a pretty apolitical office right up until the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Now it seems like everyone is a political activist, and feelings are hurt.
Is there any way to reduce the political tension in the office?
To read my answer, click here: Workplace