Worker's Compensation
When voluntary redundancy goes bad – precautions for employers (UK)
Employee volunteers for redundancy, is then made redundant on the terms offered and yet still claims unfair dismissal. A non-starter,...
It’s time to submit your EEO-1 data!: Employment & Labor Insider
For the 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection, the EEOC is continuing to modernize the agency’s EEO data collections and...
Onwards and upwards — Belgian employers brace for mandatory wage hikes
The human suffering in Ukraine is immense and leaves all of us aghast. Prosaic as it may sound by comparison,...
New York City Issues First Round of Guidance Regarding Salary Transparency Law
On March 22, 2022, the New York City Commission on Human Rights (the “Commission”) issued its first round of guidance...
Further Updates to Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards Likely Coming Soon
At its upcoming April 21, 2022 meeting, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (“Cal/OSHA”) Standards Board will decide...
As Union Organizing Actions Skyrocket, the NLRB Seeks to Bar Employers from Holding Mandatory Meetings with Employees about Unions
Two major developments this week illustrate a new landscape for employers with regard to union organizing campaigns. First, the National...
Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed to SCOTUS: Employment & Labor Insider
I was traveling and with a client all day yesterday -- otherwise, I would have posted this in a more...
Split of Authority Emerges Regarding Whether Employers Can Dismiss PAGA Lawsuits on Manageability Grounds
On March 23, 2022, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District in Estrada v. Royalty Carpet Mills, Inc.,...
Employers, get ready for a “bumpy night”: Employment & Labor Insider
As I have posted many times, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission still has a 3-2 Republican majority, but that will...
Better late than never, just about – UK government issues workplace guidance on living with covid
So with Covid 19 now officially behind us for all purposes (except actual reality, obviously), we have now been graced...