By: Lee Geiger & Laura Caty
As a result of the 2020 election, four more states—Arizona, New Jersey, Montana, and South Dakota— are legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia now permit people to grow and consume marijuana to varying amounts. Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia have ...
Last week, the EEOC released proposed updated guidance that refreshes the agency’s view of how anti-discrimination laws guard against religious bias and clarifies legal protections afforded to religious employers.
The proposed guidance refreshes the EEOC’s religious discrimination guidance manual, last updated in 2008, to align with ...
Although they are still counting votes in some states and legal challenges loom, it appears that Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States. Regardless of your politics, all Americans are asking the same question: “What does this mean for me?”. If you work in Human Resources, it is fair to expect that there will be changes, but how ...
By: Dan Burke & Laura Caty
This week, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new opinion letter addressing whether the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay employees who attend ongoing continuing education (CEU’s) during normal work hours. The opinion letter hones in on the voluntary aspect of certain CEU’s, as opposed ...
Who’s tired of 2020? Me! Me! Me! COVID gave us a bit of a reprieve for the summer months, but now seems to be back with a vengeance. New cases are higher than ever across the world. Parts of Europe are shutting down again. US cases and hospitalizations keep going up. You don’t have to read the news to know that cases are increasing … just ask any ...
A New York federal judge struck down part of the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) “Final Rule” regarding so-called “joint employers” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). If upheld and applied outside of New York, this ruling will expand the number of employers that have potential liability under the FLSA for minimum wage ...
As a result of COVID-19 restrictions limiting in-person dining and shopping, many restaurants and shops are offering customers the opportunity to receive food and goods via delivery. Whether you are a traditional restaurant offering delivery (such as pizza, sandwiches or other carry-out), or new to the delivery scene because of COVID-19 ...
For those following along at home, you are most certainly aware of the heavyweight battle going on between the Department of Labor (DOL) and the State of New York over the FFCRA regulations. If you need a visual, think of the nerd version of Tyson v. Holyfield – lots of words flying around but no one loses an ear. Lots of papercuts, but no black eyes. You ...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) delivered some welcome news for employers this week in the form of guidance clarifying that an employer that permits employees to telework temporarily during the COVID crisis is not automatically locked into allowing telework once the workplace reopens.
As we commented in a prior blog post ...
As schools across the country open (physical or virtual) doors for children this fall, the Department of Labor added new guidance under its list of Frequently Asked Questions addressing FFCRA leave for remote learning programs. According to the DOL’s new guidance, if a child’s school is operating on a hybrid schedule – i.e., where ...