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 ...
Stop the presses? Maybe! A federal judge in Texas issued an injunction which temporarily halted the enforcement of the new FLSA overtime regulations. That means that employees properly classified as exempt under the current regulations (i.e., who satisfy BOTH the salary and duties tests) but whose salary did not reach the $47,476 threshold ...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has published a revised version of Form I-9, which employers can start using now. The last day employers may use the old Form I-9 (with a revision date of 03/08/13 N) is January 21, 2017. The new Form I-9 is meant to be more user friendly, with an emphasis on decreasing technical errors. The new form may also ...
The White House unveiled late Tuesday, and the Department of Labor announced on Wednesday, that the final version of the long-awaited new overtime rule is scheduled to be released on May 23, 2016. According to the White House, the rule will require new overtime payments to 4.2 million more Americans by the end of this year.
As anticipated, the final ...