Retail employers in New York state will be required to issue workplace violence prevention policies and conduct annual workplace violence prevention training beginning March 3, 2025, under the New York Retail Safety Act...more
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul continues to sign legislation emanating from a busy legislative session, including legislation rendering contractual assignment-of-inventions provisions unenforceable, prohibiting...more
A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, on March 17, 2022, denied defendant Scribe Opco, Inc.’s motion to dismiss a class action alleging violations of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining...more
This morning the Occupational Safety and Health Administration formally issued its Emergency Temporary Standard on COVID vaccinations. Most employers with 100 or more employees will have to require their employees to get...more
While the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (“COBRA”) continuation coverage subsidy requirements imposed by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 are at the forefront of employers’ minds, recent litigation trends...more
On February 3, 2021, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed into law a new ordinance requiring grocery employers to provide their employees an additional $4.00/hour in hazard pay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The law went into...more
A new statewide leave law that has taken many employers by surprise - In November 2016, Washington voters passed Initiative 1433, best known for increasing Washington’s minimum wage to one of the highest in the nation....more
As the workplace becomes increasingly digitized, both employers and employees can benefit from the conveniences technology provides. Chief among those is the convenience of electronic access to funds, which allows people to...more
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that an ERISA plan can’t shorten the deadline for filing a legal action challenging a denial of benefits unless the participant receives written communication of the plan’s altered...more
On January 24, 2013, the United States Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury published a new installment of their “Frequently Asked Questions about Affordable Care Act Implementation” series. This...more
As reported in our November 12, 2012 End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (collectively, the “Affordable Care...more