Worker's Compensation
Federal Contractors: Register and Certify Your Affirmative Action Programs by June 30, 2022 (US)
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) will soon require federal contractors to use a Contractor Portal to register...
Cal/OSHA Adopts Fourth Iteration of COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards
On April 21, 2022, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (“Cal/OSHA”) Standards Board adopted the fourth iteration of...
The $450,000 workplace birthday party: Employment & Labor Insider
An employer who shall remain nameless had a tradition of throwing a little birthday party for each of its employees...
UK: FCA publishes final rules on diversity-related disclosures by listed companies
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a policy statement (PS22/3) setting out rule changes that will require premium and...
New FCA Policy Statement on Diversity and Inclusion on boards and executive management (UK)
At the end of last year the Financial Conduct Authority consulted on increasing diversity and inclusion on company boards and...
US Employers Must Submit 2021 EEO-1 Data to the EEOC by May 17, 2022 (US)
Each year, all private employers that are covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that...
Constructive criticism – last straw dismissal decision overturned by EAT (UK)
Every so often there comes along a case which is not madly interesting on its own facts (stay with me...
NLRB General Counsel Seeks to Reinstate Radical Standard for Union Recognition and Restrict Employer Free Speech During Corporate Organizing Campaigns
In contravention of decades-old precedent, employers may be required to recognize unions without a secret ballot election, thereby denying employers...
ABCs of employment law: Religious accommodation: Employment & Labor Insider
NOTE FROM ROBIN: Last month, I posted the first in what will be a series of very basic explanations of the...
Unfair Dismissal Is Not A Thing
Unfair dismissal is not a legal concept in Ontario or anywhere else in Canada. Simply put, there is no such...