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Foster Swift Collins & Smith

[Webinar] 2024 Labor & Employment Law Virtual Update - September 18th, 8:30 am - 11:00 am ET

It has been a particularly busy year on the labor and employment law front. To learn more about the major challenges employers face and developments your organization needs to address before year's end, we encourage you to...more

Robinson+Cole Construction Law Zone

EEOC Builds on Best Practice Guidance Regarding Harassment Within the Construction Industry

In June 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued guidance tailored to the construction industry concerning harassment in the workplace or at the jobsite. The guidance is important for construction...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

What Workplace Violence Law Means for Texas Healthcare

Violence in the workplace is something all employers prohibit and try to prevent. Healthcare employers have a tougher time, because the violence often comes from patients. How do you best protect workers while still...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Don’t Mess with Texas Nurses: Texas Healthcare Facilities Must Adopt Workplace Violence Prevention Plans by September 1, 2024

Texas has now joined states like California in creating statutory protections against workplace violence against healthcare workers. Senate Bill 240, now Chapter 331 of the Texas Health and Safety Code, requires healthcare...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Addressing Workplace Harassment: Insights into EEOC’s Proposed Enforcement Guidance

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently introduced proposed enforcement guidance aimed at further clarifying and strengthening measures against harassment in the workplace. The 144-page guidance outlines...more

White and Williams LLP

Updating The Company Employee Handbook Should Move to the Top of Every Company’s Year-End To Do List

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As year-end approaches, companies, both large and small, are busy closing out 2023 and putting plans in place for 2024. A key priority that should not be neglected as you make preparations to close out an old year and start a...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

EEOC Issues Long-Awaited Guidance on Harassment in the Modern Workplace

On September 29, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued long-awaited enforcement guidance on workplace harassment. The “Proposed Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace,” published in the...more

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First EEOC Guidance on Harassment Since 1999 Is Open for Public Comment Until November 1

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On September 29, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released draft enforcement guidance on workplace harassment, which was published in the Federal Register on October 2. The proposed guidance will be open for...more

White & Case LLP

CPRA Enforcement Activity Underway Despite Court Ruling to Delay

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The California Attorney General's (the "Cal AG") office appears to be moving forward with enforcement activities, despite a recent court ruling delaying enforcement of CPRA regulations. In the past month, since the amendments...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

TikTok Ban on Contractor Devices

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and NASA have issued a new interim rule, FAR 52.204–27, implementing Section 102 of Division R of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Pub. L. 117–328), the...more

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New Reimbursement Rules for Illinois Employers

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In April, the Illinois Department of Labor published new regulations regarding the expense reimbursement requirements in Section 9.5 of the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. The Act requires an employer to reimburse...more

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Pennsylvania Expands Definitions of Race, Sex and Religious Creed in Human Relations Act

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On December 8, 2022, Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission approved amendments to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA) and the Pennsylvania Fair Educational Opportunities Act regulations to add a...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

[Webinar] Lunch and Learn Series: New Employment Laws and Regulations Regarding Marijuana in the Workplace - November 10th, 12:00...

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Please join us for the November Lunch and Learn as Rivkin Radler Partners John Diviney and Tamika Hardy discuss the following topics: - New State laws – New York Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, New York Labor Law...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

[Event] Annual Labor & Employment Law Seminar - November 3rd, La Jolla, CA

An event presented by Labor and Employment and Human Resource Professionals - Mark your calendars! You won’t want to miss Procopio’s annual Labor & Employment Seminar in La Jolla on November 3rd. As a dedicated...more

McDermott Will & Emery

New Criminal Obligations on UK Employers and Employees

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On 24 September 2020, the Government updated its COVID-secure workplace guidance to require office workers who can work “effectively” from home to do so over the winter. Where an employer, in consultation with its employee,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Latest Developments and Deadlines Regarding the New Massachusetts PFML Law

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Important deadlines concerning the new Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) law are approaching. In June 2019, the Massachusetts legislature passed legislation to delay the start of employer and employee...more

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New York’s Westchester County Enacts Earned Sick Leave Law

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Westchester County, New York, just became the latest jurisdiction to enact an Earned Sick Leave Law (“Law”). Similar in many respects to New York City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Law (although Westchester’s version does not...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Start Spreadin’ the News: NYC’s “Cooperative Dialogue” Requirement for Accommodations is Effective Today

A spate of new state and local regulations is making it tougher to be an employer in the City That Never Sleeps. As previously covered by HR Legalist, new requirements for sexual harassment policies went into effect across...more

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Racing Against the Clock: New York State Issues Final Guidance on Sexual Harassment Policies and Training

As we previously reported here, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently enacted an aggressive anti-sexual harassment law with stringent requirements for employers’ anti-harassment policies and training. A key component of the...more

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Oklahoma’s New Medical Marijuana Law and Your Workplace

Oklahomans voted 57 percent in favor of State Question 788, resulting in the passage of the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Act (OMMA) on June 26, 2018. Many experts consider the new law to be one of the broadest medical marijuana...more

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Workplace Law Update For Washington Employers, Summer 2018 Edition

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Washington’s lawmakers and regulators have not taken a summer holiday this year, remaining active by passing new regulations based on legislation from the last legislative cycle or reacting to new case law by creating new...more

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California’s FEHC Adopts New National Origin Discrimination Regulations

On July 1, 2018, new regulations from California’s Fair Employment and Housing Council (FEHC) that clarify protections from national origin discrimination will go into effect. The new regulations are extensive and include...more

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New Jersey Takes the Lead in Equal Pay Act Legislation

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Following up on his January 16, 2018 Executive Order promoting equal pay for equal work, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a historic and sweeping equal pay law on April 24, 2018. The “Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act” was...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

FEHA Expands Protections for Gender Identity and Expression

The Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) now has additional protections against discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression in the workplace. The new FEHA regulations, entitled “Regulations...more

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West Virginia’s New Drug & Alcohol Law: What You Need to Know for Your Testing Programs

West Virginia employers that may have hesitated in the past to implement and enforce robust drug and alcohol testing policies may now do so without fear of running afoul of prior state court decisions limiting employers’...more

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