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Archives for December 5, 2022
Joseph Lazzarotti Discusses Best Practices for Construction Contractors to Avoid Cyberattacks
Joseph Lazzarotti discusses how construction contractors can protect themselves, their business partners and their clients from cyberattacks in “Ransomware—What Construction Contractors Need to Know,” published by Roofing and Exteriors.
Richard Greenberg Comments on Workplace Discussions Surrounding New Pay Transparency Laws
Richard Greenberg comments on how employers should prepare to navigate salary discussions as more states begin to implement pay transparency laws in “New Pay Laws Put Onus On Employers To Explain Salaries,” published by Law360.
Congress Votes to Impose Bargaining Agreement to Avoid Nationwide Railroad Strike
Both the House and Senate have passed legislation under the Railway Labor Act to avoid a railroad strike by imposing the bargaining agreement brokered by President Joe Biden in September 2022.
New York Workers’ Compensation Board Once Again Tightens the Coverage Standard on Professional Employer Organizations
The battle regarding how much Workers’ Compensation coverage Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) provide to underlying employers rages on at the Workers’ Compensation Board level.
Deadline for Prescription Drug and Health Care Spending Reporting
The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) adopted a new prescription drug reporting mandate on November 12, 2021. The mandate requires group health plans and group health insurers to submit prescription drug and health care spending reports to the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Internal Revenue Service (“the agencies”) on annual basis. Under the CAA, the following information must be reported to the agencies by December 27, 2022:
Supreme Court Seems Ready to Back Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage
The justices are expected to settle a question left open in 2018: how to reconcile claims of religious liberty with laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Video Game Workers at Microsoft and Activision Take Steps to Unionize
Microsoft has remained neutral during a labor organizing bid as the Xbox maker seeks regulatory approval for its Activision acquisition.
Research: Men Speak More Abstractly Than Women
Abstract language tends to be associated with leadership, meaning that how women are socialized to communicate can make them less likely to be seen as leaders.
Signs of potential disaster were present before the Walmart shootings. Are they present in your workplace?
There were signs of potential disaster that later erupted in Virginia last month when Walmart supervisor Andre Bing allegedly shot and killed six coworkers.
The art of ghosting in the workplace
When it comes to human relationships, there’s only one universal truth: ultimately, they all end.
How to Deal with Harassment in the Workplace
Learn to recognize, understand and mitigate risks of workplace threats and violence.
Pattie Hunt Sinacole explains reasonable accommodations in the workplace
Is remote work a reasonable accommodation?
Young workers’ job tenure similar to rates of the past: research
Despite the wave of job resignations spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic, young adult workers in the United States have reported similar job tenure over the past 40 years.
The ‘PTO Woes’ are the ‘Sunday Scaries’ on steroids, and they’re making workers skip vacation time
Nothing ruins a vacation like the creeping dread of what awaits you back at the office.