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Archives for December 26, 2023
A USERRA Leave Primer for Manufacturing Employers
Manufacturers rely on consistent employee attendance to operate production lines and meet critical delivery deadlines to customers. The best-laid production plans can be disrupted by employee absences leaving a gap in the production line. As a result, manufacturers rely on reasonable and enforceable attendance policies to support their operations. Those attendance policies must make room for appropriate employee time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act, state workers’ compensation laws, and perhaps the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Employee leave requests for military duty are likewise protected by law.
Goldberg Segalla Welcomes Richard L. LaRose Jr.
Goldberg Segalla added Richard L. LaRose Jr. to the firm’s Workers’ Compensation group in Albany.
Coming to a Retirement Plan Near You in 2024—Long-Term, Part-Time Employees
Beginning January 1, 2024, employers will be required to allow Long-term, part-time (LTPT) employees to make deferral contributions to qualified retirement plans that contain cash or deferred arrangements. Deferrals for LTPT employees are a departure from prior eligibility conditions rules that allowed plans to require participants to reach age twenty-one
New York Governor Vetoes Noncompete Ban Bill
On December 22, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed the bill New York lawmakers delivered to her, which proposed a ban of nearly all types of noncompete agreements in employment. In so doing, she called for modifications to the legislation that would protect “middle-class and low-wage workers” from noncompete agreements, while
Deloitte Is Using A.I. to Reduce Layoffs. You Can Too
Can A.I. help you reallocate your employees in order to avoid a layoff? Deloitte thinks so: The consulting giant recently announced that it is looking into using A.I. technology to move employees around so that the company can properly utilize existing staff and hopefully avoid layoffs.
This may sound like a cutting-edge, high-tech
Work Shift: Five Things We Learned In 2023
The world of work continued to evolve in 2023.
Despite recent layoffs, we may be poised for a quiet start to 2024’s labor market
After ‘quiet quitting,’ ‘quiet firing,’ and ‘quiet hiring,’ the labor market is looking just plain quiet, these experts say.
Big Labor systematically lies to forced dues-paying workers
Throughout last month’s first-ever U.S. House hearing on national right-to-work legislation in the Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP), the dividing line between the panel’s Republican majority and its Democratic minority was very clear.
Lizzo Has Reportedly Requested For The Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Documents To Be Sealed By Courts
Lizzo‘s legal woes are heating up.
EEOC Commissioner Advocates for Regulation of AI in Hiring
Keith Sonderling, a commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), is ushering in a vital conversation around the role and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace, especially within the realm of hiring and recruitment.