The U.S. women’s national soccer team (USWNT) is close to receiving a $24 million payout now that a federal judge has preliminarily approved the current and former team members’ settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation...more
8/17/2022
/ Back Pay ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Settlement ,
Soccer ,
Wage and Hour ,
Women in Sports
Welcome to FP Forecast, a monthly outlook featuring Fisher Phillips thought leaders providing their insights into what employers can expect in 2022 and beyond. By following along each month, you’ll be in the best position to...more
7/21/2022
/ Background Checks ,
Blockchain ,
College Athletes ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hospitality Industry ,
Misclassification ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Transparency ,
Sports ,
Student Athletes ,
Tip Credit ,
Tipped Employees ,
Tips ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour
Given the consequential nature of many of the issues decided by the Supreme Court this year, employers can be forgiven for overlooking the Supreme Court’s June 30 opinion in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, a...more
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Soccer Teams agreed to joint collective bargaining agreements with the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) on May 18 which guarantees equal pay for both teams. Not only...more
5/23/2022
/ Athletes ,
Back Pay ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Equal Pay ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Settlement ,
Soccer ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour ,
Women in Sports
To combat a tight job market and a seemingly shrinking workforce, employers are looking for creative ways to retain and attract talent. An Earned Wage Access policy – a revolutionary employee benefit program that offers...more
During the first State of the Union address with both houses of Congress present since the pandemic began, President Biden made brief references to his ambitious workplace law agenda, touching on several labor and employment...more
3/4/2022
/ Biden Administration ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Labor Relations ,
Minimum Wage ,
Paid Leave ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
State of the Union ,
Union Organizers ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour
In what is being portrayed as a significant victory for women in sports, the United States women’s national soccer team (USWNT) announced a $24 million-dollar settlement of a class action equal pay action against the U.S....more
3/2/2022
/ Athletes ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Class Action ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Pay ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Settlement ,
Soccer ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour ,
Women in Sports
By this time of year, most companies have wrapped up their 2021 performance review process and have handed out year-end bonuses and raises for 2022. However, how can employers know their pay plans and compensation decisions...more
We recently provided our predictions for what employers could expect to see in the wage and hour field over the next year as part of our FP Forecast series – but we had too many insights to fit into that edition. So we’ve...more
2/18/2022
/ Bonuses ,
Class Action ,
Collective Actions ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Labor Shortage ,
Misclassification ,
Over-Time ,
Remote Working ,
Retaliation ,
Wage and Hour
Welcome to FP Forecast, a monthly outlook featuring Fisher Phillips thought leaders providing their insights into what employers can expect in 2022 and beyond. By following along each month, you’ll be in the best position to...more
2/17/2022
/ Affirmative Action ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Automation Systems ,
Corporate Governance ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Indictments ,
Infrastructure ,
Labor Shortage ,
Manufacturers ,
Minors ,
Misclassification ,
No-Poaching ,
Remote Working ,
Sustainability ,
Wage and Hour ,
Whistleblowers
It’s been said that from crisis comes opportunity. And given that the COVID-19 pandemic has handed us the greatest collective crisis in our lifetimes, it should stand to reason that we should now be in the perfect position to...more
5/3/2021
/ Business Operations ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Data Security ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Foreign Workers ,
Form I-9 ,
Gig Economy ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hospitality Industry ,
Labor Relations ,
Legal Operations ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Remote Working ,
Staffing Agencies ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
It appears to be official: unless the election results can be overturned in several states, Joe Biden will soon be our nation’s 46th president. Now the work begins to forecast what the next four years will bring. We’ve spent...more
11/9/2020
/ Affirmative Action ,
Biden Administration ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Immigration Reform ,
Labor Relations ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Paid Leave ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Political Campaigns ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
9/10/2020
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Independent Contractors ,
Medical Leave ,
Misclassification ,
NLRB ,
Paid Leave ,
Payroll Taxes ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Remote Working ,
Telecommuting ,
Unemployment Benefits ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wrongful Death
In a win secured by members of Fisher Phillips Wage and Hour Law Practice Group, a Colorado federal court just held that employers may “reasonably approximate” vehicle-related expenses for reimbursement purposes under federal...more
The U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (DOL) issued an Opinion Letter on August 31 concluding that, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and its implementing regulations, employers are permitted to...more
Federal courts across the country have been split on the issue of whether a court can exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state plaintiffs who want to opt-in into a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective action....more
This article addresses many employment-related issues facing employers in the wake of hurricane-related disasters; consequently, in addition to federal laws, we also focus on certain state laws, especially those in the areas...more
8/21/2020
/ Business Closures ,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Charitable Donations ,
COBRA ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Covered Employees ,
Data Privacy ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Group Health Plans ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Force Majeure Clause ,
Foreign Workers ,
Form I-9 ,
H-1B ,
Health and Safety ,
Health Insurance ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Health Plan Sponsors ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
HIPAA Privacy Rule ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hurricane Season ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Labor Relations ,
Medical Leave ,
Military Leave ,
Military Service Members ,
Natural Disasters ,
NLRB ,
OSHA ,
Retirement ,
Retirement Plan ,
Retirement Plan Providers ,
State Labor Laws ,
Unemployment Benefits ,
Unemployment Compensation System ,
Unions ,
USCIS ,
USERRA ,
Visa Applications ,
Visas ,
Volunteers ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Hazards ,
Workplace Injury ,
Workplace Safety
After nearly three months of stay-at-home orders and the shutdown of non-essential retail businesses, New Jersey is slowly starting to reopen. Non-essential construction projects resumed, non-essential retail businesses have...more
Employers across the nation have faced swift and dramatic changes to business operations as states and local municipalities have issued “stay-at-home” orders and imposed other restrictions in the hopes of stymying the spread...more
In a much-anticipated decision, a federal appeals court just ruled that Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claims resolved through Rule 68(a) offers of judgment do not require fairness review and judicial approval. The 2nd...more
12/16/2019
/ Appeals ,
Court Approval ,
Employment Litigation ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
Offer of Judgment ,
Over-Time ,
Reversal ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Wage and Hour
The national conversation around issues of gender equality and the demands for pay equity is driving rapid changes in the law. Many states – including New York, California, Massachusetts, Oregon and New Jersey – have passed...more
11/14/2019
/ #MeToo ,
Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Corporate Culture ,
Diversity ,
Employee Training ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Policies ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Equity ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Leadership ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Pay Gap ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Wage and Hour
The federal Equal Pay Act (EPA) requires that men and women in the same workplace be compensated with equal pay for equal work. Nearly every state has its own law that also prohibits discrimination in wages on the basis of...more
• Cannabis businesses must comply with federal wage and hour law, a federal appeals court ruled, despite the fact they operate in a field still illegal under another federal law. The court said two wrongs don’t make a right....more
9/30/2019
/ Appeals ,
Collective Actions ,
Controlled Substances Act ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Independent Contractors ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Marijuana ,
Marijuana Related Businesses ,
Misclassification ,
Over-Time ,
Unpaid Wages ,
Wage and Hour
A federal court announced yesterday that employers have until September 30, 2019 to turn over pay data as part of your revised EEO-1 reporting obligations. After several weeks of uncertainty, you now have a definitive due...more
New presidents are often judged based on their accomplishments in their first 100 days in office. President Trump is no exception to that rule. The Trump administration recently passed that milestone date, offering an...more
5/4/2017
/ Affirmative Action ,
Blacklist ,
Buy American Act ,
Data Security ,
Domestic Hiring Policy ,
EEO-1 ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Immigration Reform ,
Labor Relations ,
LGBTQ ,
Neil Gorsuch ,
OSHA ,
Over-Time ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
SCOTUS ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety