Temporary Employees

Does Your Bench Have Temps? OSHA Expands

by Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 5/15/2013

OSHA has issued a new memorandum regarding the use of temporary workers. In this memorandum, OSHA stated that it will be reviewing the use of temporary workers during every inspection. This enforcement initiative means that...more

Labor & Employment E-Note - May 14, 2013

by Amy Jordan, Bryance Metheny, John Paul Nefflen, Thomas Potter, III | Burr & Forman on 5/15/2013

In This Issue: - Court Rules NLRB's Workplace Union Notices Violated Law - NLRB Urges Regional Directors to Maintain High Settlement Rate - EEOC Seeing Rising Number of Age Discrimination Complaints - OSHA...more

New OSHA Focus on Temporary Workers

by Carla Gunnin | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 5/3/2013

Does your company use temporary workers? OSHA has issued a new memorandum regarding the use of temporary workers. In this memorandum, OSHA has stated that it will be reviewing the use of temporary workers...more

Does Your Oil and Gas Company Use Temporary Workers?

by Carla Gunnin | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 5/3/2013

In this memorandum, OSHA states that it will be reviewing the use of temporary workers during every inspection. OSHA has already been particularly interested in the oil and gas industry. In 2011, OSHA issued a special...more

Staffing Industry Compliance with the Employer Shared Responsibility (aka “Pay-or-Play”) Provisions of the Affordable Care Act:...

by Alden J. Bianchi | Mintz Levin - Employment, Labor & Benefits on 5/3/2013

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Act”), the federal government, state governments, insurers, employers, and individuals all share responsibility to make affordable health insurance coverage widely...more

OSHA Announces Initiative For the Protection of Temporary Workers

by Martha J. Zackin | Mintz Levin - Employment, Labor & Benefits on 5/1/2013

On April 29, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced an initiative to protect temporary employees from workplace hazards. The initiative, announced through a press release and a...more

Does your construction company use temporary workers?

by Carla Gunnin | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 5/1/2013

OSHA has issued a new memorandum regarding the use of temporary workers. See, April 29, 2013 memorandum from Richard Fairfax. ...more

H-2B Adjudication Temporarily Suspended

by Yova Borovska | Fowler White Boggs P.A. on 4/9/2013

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) has temporarily suspended adjudication of most H-2B petitions for temporary non-agricultural workers in response to the Court order entered March 21, 2013 in Comite de Apoyo...more

Temporary Teacher May Seek Damages For School District's Failure To Provide Her "First Priority" When Filling A Subsequent Vacancy

by Diana Halpenny, Marie Nakamura, Meghan Covert Russell | Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard on 3/29/2013

In Henderson v. Newport-Mesa Unified School District (--- Cal.Rptr.3d ----, Cal.App. 4 Dist., March 13, 2013), a California court of appeal considered whether a temporary teacher employed for more than two years by a school...more

Global Employment and Benefits Updates - Issue 1 2013

by White & Case LLP on 3/22/2013

In This Issue: - Balancing human rights in discrimination law - French flexicurity - In Profile: Johanna Johnson - News in Brief - Upcoming Events - Excerpt from French flexicurity: The...more

New Developments Regarding Temporary Workers in Germany

by Anne Diedrich, Arno Frings, Ulrich Wahlers | Orrick - Global Employment Law Group on 3/20/2013

German companies rely heavily on temporary workers. Due to fundamental legislative reforms in the mid-2000s, it is possible to pay temporary workers a salary which is below the salary of comparable permanent staff. Therefore,...more

OSHA Has Been Hard At Work - Will You Be Ready If OSHA Knocks At Your Door?

by Heather MacDougall | Akerman Senterfitt on 3/19/2013

A look at a recent speech given by OSHA's Assistant Secretary, David Michaels, Ph.D., provides employers with insight into what agency touts as successes over the past several years and its vision for the year ahead. ...more

The Employment Law Authority - January/February 2013

by Justin S. Coffey, Harold P. Coxson, Ruthie L. Goodboe, Andrew W. Merrills, Sarah J. Murphy, Timothy J. Stanton | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/26/2013

In This Issue: - Email Request Does Not Constitute "Complaint" - Former NLRB Member Joins Ogletree Deakins - For Employers, Pay-Or-play Proposals Could Be Worse, Much Worse - The NLRB In 2013: More Controversy...more

Amendments to the Labor Contract Law on Labor Dispatch Services Take Effect July 1, 2013

by Ron Cai, Victoria Ding | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 1/31/2013

On Dec. 28, 2012, China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (the “NPC’s Standing Committee”) promulgated the Amendments to China’s Labor Contract Law (the “Amendments”). The Amendments will take effect July...more

Revisions to Labour Contract Law Address Employee Dispatch Issues, Company Employment Models

by McDermott Will & Emery on 1/18/2013

The People’s Republic of China recently released revisions to its Labour Contract Law that will affect agencies that dispatch employees, dispatched employees’ rights and companies that hire dispatched employees. The...more

NFL Replacement Referees-the Lessons of Training Temporary Employees

by Thomas Fox on 10/3/2012

The short autumn of our discontent is over as the United States has ended one of its greatest national convolutions of recent memory. Am I speaking of the attack on the US Consulate in Libya; the current stalemate of US...more

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