On July 31, 2024, Governor Maura Healey signed into law the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ first pay transparency law, the Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act (the Act). The Act requires employers with 25 or more...more
8/12/2024
/ Disclosure Requirements ,
EEO-1 ,
Job Ads ,
Job Applicants ,
New Legislation ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Pay Transparency ,
Reporting Requirements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Statutory Deadlines ,
Wage and Hour
A frequently used step to control costs in times of uncertainty is to reduce personnel. A well-planned restructuring or reduction in force, generally referred to as a “layoff,” can achieve meaningful cost reductions...more
10/18/2022
/ Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Layoffs ,
Notice Requirements ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Risk Management ,
Severance Agreements ,
Severance Pay ,
Vesting ,
Wages ,
WARN Act
As state and local stay-at-home orders are lifted, businesses across the U.S. are in the process of reopening or planning to reopen. Despite downward trends of new COVID-19 cases in some states, the COVID-19 pandemic...more
6/16/2020
/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Contact Tracing ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fitness for Duty Exams ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Notification Requirements ,
OSHA ,
Public Health ,
Quarantine ,
Re-Opening Guidelines ,
Remote Working ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Return-to-Work Agreements ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Self-Reporting ,
Sick Employees ,
Virus Testing ,
Workers' Compensation Claim ,
Workplace Illness and Injury Reporting ,
Workplace Safety
OSHA has issued a proposed regulation that, for the first time ever, would require certain employers to submit workplace injury and illness data directly to OSHA in electronic format. After being submitted, the data would...more