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Legislation Roundup: Maryland General Assembly Mandates that Employers Provide "Light Duty" to Pregnant Disabled Women, Leave for...

by Joseph Harkins, Steven E. Kaplan | Littler on 5/17/2013

In May 2013, Governor Martin O'Malley signed three noteworthy statutes that will affect virtually every Maryland employer. Effective October 1, 2013, Maryland employers with 15 or more employees must provide their pregnant...more

Mexican Federal Labor Law Reform: What Companies Doing Business in Mexico Need to Know

by Brian Arbetter, Terese Connolly | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/16/2013

Mexico’s new Federal Labor Law (FLL) took effect on December 1, 2012. The reform seeks to modernize Mexico’s labor law. The new FLL’s major, employment related amendments include increased regulation of outsourcing jobs,...more

New Mexico Enacts Fair Pay for Women Act

by Connie Bertram, Fredric Leffler, Lawrence Lorber, Marc Mandelman, Katharine Parker, Leslie Silverman, Allan Weitzman | Proskauer Rose LLP on 5/6/2013

Earlier this spring, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez signed into law the Fair Pay for Women Act ("FPWA" or the "Act"), prohibiting employers from engaging in gender–based wage discrimination. Inspired by the passage of...more

Edgewater Japanese Market to Pay $250,000 to Hispanic Employees Paid less Due to National Origin

by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 4/19/2013

Mitsuwa Marketplace Violated Law by Paying Hispanic Workers Less Than Others for Identical Jobs, Federal Agency Charged - NEWARK, N.J. -- Mitsuwa Corporation, which does business as Mitsuwa Marketplace, a large...more

Federal Contractors Beware! OFCCP Will Be Searching for Any Discrimination in Compensation

by Dara DeHaven, Leigh M. Nason | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/16/2013

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently issued new investigation standards and procedures as well as a new policy directive for reviewing compensation systems and practices of federal contractors...more

OFCCP’s New Compensation Directive: The Agency’s Continued Search For Systemic—Or Any—Discrimination In Compensation

by Dara DeHaven, Leigh M. Nason | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/16/2013

After a relatively quiet 2012, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) hit the ground running in 2013. In a second major announcement in the new year, OFCCP issued new investigation standards and procedures...more

Reinstatement Of Employment Ordered – A Decade After Disability Leave Commenced

by Catherine P. Coulter | Dentons on 4/3/2013

In a March 2013 decision that is likely to be challenged in the courts, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of an employee a decade after she went on disability leave, together with loss of wages...more

Airline Management Newsletter - March 2013

by Lilia Bell, Linda Cavanna-Wilk, Doug Hall, Sarah Pierce Wimberly | FordHarrison on 3/29/2013

In This Issue: - NMB Announces Voting Procedures Changes - Second Circuit Weighs In On AIR21 Burden-Shifting Framework - DOL Issues Final FMLA Crewmember Regulations ..Flight Crew Eligibility Standards ...more

Fifth Regional Mini-Dukes Class Action Brought Against Wal-Mart

by Andrew Volin | Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 3/12/2013

A fifth regional class action gender discrimination case has been filed against Wal-Mart. This latest case, brought in Wisconsin, claims Wal-Mart discriminates against women in pay and promotions at the store level in states...more

OFCCP Rescinds Prior Guidance on Compensation Discrimination Analysis In Favor of a Case-by-Case Approach

by Michael Aparicio, Trish Higgins, Lisa Lupion | Orrick - Global Employment Law Group on 3/12/2013

Effective February 28, 2013, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) rescinded two 2006 guidance documents concerning how the OFCCP and federal contractors analyze potential pay discrimination. This...more

Panelists Address Future of Labor and Employment Practice

by David Johnson | Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens and Cannada,... on 3/12/2013

Originally published in the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law, Volume 41, Number 1, Fall 2012. Against the backdrop of decades of significant legislation and court battles impacting the workplace,...more

Pot o' Gold: OFCCP Releases Contractor Compensation Procedures

by Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 3/11/2013

OFCCP has released a new directive that outlines the procedures the office will use for reviewing contractor compensation systems and practices during a compliance evaluation. One thing is not new: Under Executive Order 11246...more

OFCCP Rescinds Old Compensation Guidance, Implements New Compensation Directive

by Duane Morris LLP on 3/6/2013

On February 28, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) rescinded two enforcement guidance documents on pay discrimination from 2006 and replaced them with a new Directive...more

OFCCP Abandons 'Cookie Cutter' Approach To Investigating Federal Contractor Discriminatory Pay Practices

by Beth P. Zoller | XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis on 3/4/2013

The Office of Federal Contractor Compliance (OFCCP) has adopted new policies and procedures that will make it easier for its compliance officers to uncover pay discrimination among federal contractors....more

New Pay Discrimination Directive Issued by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”)

by Connie Bertram, Lawrence Lorber, Katharine Parker, Leslie Silverman | Proskauer Rose LLP on 3/4/2013

On February 26, 2013, OFCCP announced the rescission of two guidance documents on pay discrimination issued in 2006: Interpreting Nondiscrimination Requirements of Executive Order 11246 With Respect to Systemic Compensation...more

OFCCP Announces New Tactics To Review Compensation

by Fisher & Phillips LLP on 3/4/2013

Be Ready To Defend Your Compensation Decisions - The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the U.S. Department of Labor agency that enforces federal contractor affirmative action requirements, has...more

Labor Letter, February 2013: Should Your Employees Telecommute?

by Eric Uhl | Fisher & Phillips LLP on 2/4/2013

Technology advances and innovations bring advantages and efficiencies. But, sooner or later, most changes bring potential disadvantages as well. In the end, we can’t resist technological change: the trick is to leverage the...more

Equal Pay Still A Hot Issue: Fair Pay Act Reintroduced In Congress

by Beth P. Zoller | XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis on 1/31/2013

In a year in which equal pay looks to be hot issue, the Fair Pay Act (S. 168, H.R. 438) was reintroduced in Congress in both the House and the Senate by Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)...more

Governor Cuomo Proposes Increased Minimum Wage And Significant Changes To New York’s Employment Law In State Of The State Address

by Hema Chatlani, Allison Ianni, Caitlin Senff Ladd, Aaron Warshaw | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/31/2013

Although New York State’s recent strict assault weapons ban has garnered the majority of attention from Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2013 legislative agenda, Governor Cuomo also has made significant proposals that will affect...more

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