New York City Bans Pre-Employment Marijuana Testing -
Effective May 10, 2020, New York City employers will no longer be able to test job applicants for marijuana. Such testing will now be considered a discriminatory...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program's (OFCCP) mission is to ensure that construction companies conducting business with the federal government are complying with applicable equal employment laws and Executive...more
The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) highly anticipated changes to the overtime provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (Final Overtime Rule) have been released and will take effect on January 1, 2020. The...more
Does this scenario ring a bell? An employee needs time off from work for a health-related problem that appears to trigger the employee's rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). ...more
Self-care is not self-indulgence. Self-care is self-respect. In a busy world of work, family, community, charitable, religious, etc. responsibilities, we are pulled in so many directions....more
The D.C. Universal Paid Leave Act has incredibly broad reach. All employers that directly or indirectly employ or exercise control over the terms and conditions of employees working in D.C. and that are required to pay...more
The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) highly anticipated changes to the overtime provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) were published on Thursday, March 7, 2019 ("proposed Overtime Rule"). ...more
Under an interim final rule issued on September 12, 2018, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFBP) has issued a new model disclosure form that employers and background check companies are required to use, effective...more
As the Supreme Court ended its 2017-18 Term, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his resignation; the Court did away with "agency fees" for public employees; and in other decisions favorable to employers, the Court solidified...more
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Many of you read with interest our recent article discussing Maryland's new law, the General Contractor Liability for Unpaid Wages Act. As we outlined in the article, that law makes a construction general contractor jointly...more
Under Maryland wage laws, if an employer fails to properly pay its employees, it may be liable for up to three times the wages owed to the employee, plus attorneys' fees and costs. Employees may file a lawsuit against their...more
The #MeToo movement has not only increased social awareness regarding sexual harassment in the workplace, but it has also spawned new legal requirements for Maryland employers. On May 15, 2018, Governor Hogan signed the...more
According to the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation’s (DLLR) website, the Office of Small Business Regulatory Assistance has received more than 2,000 emails from employers and employees with questions...more
Although the Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) under the Trump Administration may lean toward compliance over enforcement, it is clear that nothing has changed yet regarding the...more
We previously updated you about the status and provisions of the Maryland Health Working Families Act (the “Act”), which would mandate paid sick and safe leave of up to 40 hours.
After much angst and a few political...more
Employers have until December 1, 2017 to electronically submit injury and illness information from their 2016 Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (Form 300A) under OSHA’s 2016 Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries...more
The news has been fraught with allegations of sexual harassment by major players in the television and movie production industries, high tech and venture capital firms, and others. High value employees alleged to have engaged...more
Indeed, the EEOC filed far more than 80 lawsuits during July, August, and September 2017 – the last quarter of its fiscal year. Approximately 50 percent of those lawsuits targeted employers for alleged individual and, more...more
In Van Rossum v. Baltimore County, Maryland, a jury awarded a community health inspector $250,000 in compensatory damages and $530,000 in back pay after deciding that her employer, Baltimore County, violated the ADA by...more
As we previously reported, during the last year of President Obama’s Administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published an amendment to its illness/injury recording keeping rule, which would...more
Delaware and Oregon have joined Massachusetts and other local jurisdictions (like New York City, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh (currently in litigation)) by enacting laws that prohibit employers from inquiring about the salary...more
State and local jurisdictions across the country continue to enact mandatory paid sick leave laws that create administrative and compliance challenges for employers. At least seven states, the District of Columbia and...more
While employers wait to see if the Trump Administration will produce a kinder, gentler National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the NLRB is still in the business of punishing employers for workplace policies that ostensibly...more
New York City is the third jurisdiction to pass a ban on salary history inquiries, following Massachusetts and Philadelphia. Philadelphia’s law was set to take effect in May 2017, however, the constitutionality of...more
Thirty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held in the landmark case of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson that workplace harassment is an actionable form of discrimination prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964....more