It all began with Harvey. Last week, Matt Lauer and NBC shared the “spotlight.” This week has been busy, too. Congressman John Conyers resigned on Tuesday and Al Franken announced today he is resigning from the Senate. Will Bob (or Sally) at your company be next to make the news? While your business may not have the notoriety of Hollywood or NBC, it ...
The tragic and unnecessary gun violence in Maryland and Delaware this week took three lives and left three others with critical injuries. In the wake of mourning those lives lost, employers often worry of similar events in their workplace. But how can we, as employers, prevent violence in the workplace?
Employers take different approaches to ...
Bill O’Reilly. Harvey Weinstein. Roy Price.
Recently, headlines and front pages have been saturated with stories of workplace sexual harassment. HR professionals are taking a closer look at corporate culture, specifically the policies and procedures that support a workplace environment free from harassment and discrimination.
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Media companies typically love publicity. They typically clamor for front-page news coverage. But recently, sexual harassment allegations have created unwelcome headlines for those companies.
Cable giant Fox News faced sexual harassment woes earlier this year that led to the departure of its former Chairman and CEO, Roger Ailes, and host ...
Americans are watching in horror this morning as details are revealed about the shooting at a country music festival at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Sunday night. With reports revealing 50 dead and 400 injured, this is the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
In the wake of this shooting, many employers may be asking ...
It’s been a good week for employers – at least from a governmental regulation perspective. Yesterday, we wrote about relaxed enforcement of the EEOC’s EEO-1 form requirements. That means employers will not need to provide wage data on EEO-1 forms to be submitted by March 31, 2018. (Click here for yesterday’s article.)
We had no sooner ...
That noise you just heard? It was employers across the country breathing a collective sigh of relief. The federal government’s Office of Management & Budget (“OMB”) announced this week that it is delaying enforcement of the wage and hour analysis portion of the new EEO-1 form (Component 2 of the form). However, Component 1, which seeks ...
Employers should take note of upcoming changes to Ohio’s law about carrying concealed weapons (CCW). Beginning March 21, 2017, the amended CCW laws eliminate a number of “gun free zones,” such as airports (outside the secure area), specific school zones, and certain public buildings. The amended law also grants colleges and universities ...
On January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order, entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States.” This Executive Order suspends entry by individuals into the United States who are from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen for 90 days, and indefinitely suspends the ...
This week, Kentucky joined a growing majority of states across the country as a “Right to Work” state. This means employees in Kentucky cannot be forced to join a union and pay dues. The new law applies to all collective bargaining agreements (including extensions) entered into after January 7, 2017. The Right to Work law will not impact ...