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Posted: | Littler Category: HR - General
How do I identify the state employment laws that apply to our remote workers?
Even with the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many employees are still working from home, in states quite distant from headquarters.
As we settle into this new reality, employers must grapple with a fundamental
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Washington Post
Contract deadlines expire after midnight on Sept 15. On Thursday, GM made a new offer to the UAW with a 10 percent wage increase for most employees.
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Washington Post
This manager thought they had everyone’s loyalty and trust. Then a staffer wanted to record their discussion.
Posted: | Littler Category: Immigration - Visas
This podcast episode is dedicated to unraveling the complexities of filing an H-1B petition and remaining compliant following an approval.
The H-1B visa program is known for its competitiveness, intricate regulations, and fact-specific nature. Whether you’re an employer looking to hire and maintain foreign talent or an H-1B applicant,
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Harvard Business Review
Six ways to ease back into your routine.
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Reuters
Walmart (WMT.N) is changing the hourly starting wage structure for entry-level store workers, as companies seek to reduce costs in a slowing job market.
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Wall Street Journal
Workers say retail therapy is the cure for return-to-the-office blues; desktop turntables and custom button-downs made from T-shirts
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: BBC
Some companies are staying flexible about coming back to the office – but others are putting their foot down in a way they haven’t since the pandemic.
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: University of Utah
Writers, coal miners, railway workers, UPS drivers—labor unions across the United States have made headlines for demanding higher wages, better benefits and safer working conditions. A labor union is a group of employees who use a collective voice to strengthen their ability to negotiate with their employer, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The U.S. has a rich history of labor movements; for example, unions are responsible for federal laws around workplace safety requirements and child labor laws.
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Reuters
U.S. employers have yet to ramp up layoffs as many economists have predicted, data out on Thursday showed in the latest indication of a job market refusing to buckle in the face of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to slow it down.
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Reuters
General Motors (GM.N) was ordered by a federal appeals court on Thursday to defend against claims by a Black safety supervisor, who said she endured years of racism and sexism at an upstate New York plant where other workers displayed Confederate flags and nooses.
Posted: | Littler Category: California - General
A new state law (SB 699) extends the reach of California’s restriction on non-competes to contracts signed out of state. SB 699 creates a private right of action for employees whose agreements include restrictive covenants and provides for attorney fees for any current, former, or even prospective employee who
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: Labor Law - Collective Bargaining
On August 30, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released two decisions that will make it more difficult for employers to implement past practices during a break in bargaining or at an impasse, opening the door for unions to hold employers hostage by dragging out collective bargaining.
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: Illinois - Wage & Hour
The city of Evanston, Illinois, recently enacted the Fair Workweek Ordinance (24-O-23), expanding hourly workers’ rights to predictable scheduling across multiple industries, including hospitality, food service and restaurants, retail, warehouse services, manufacturing, and building services.
Posted: | Ford Harrison Category: HR - Drugs & Alcohol
Executive Summary: As promised, this is the first of multiple Alerts that will explore the details of the ongoing opioid epidemic, identify relevant issues for employers to analyze, and provide suggestions on how to effectively navigate this complicated and highly problematic issue.