Join Us for Our Complimentary Annual Labor & Employment Seminar!
We recommend our seminar to employers, HR professionals, and inhouse counsel to learn about best practices and the latest updates to Labor & Employment law....more
9/11/2023
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Our Decades-Old Tradition Returns In Person!
Join us to learn about the latest updates and best practices for employers, in-house counsel, and HR professionals.
Among the topics during this year’s general session are a...more
9/29/2022
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Continuing Legal Education ,
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Employee Monitoring ,
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Employment Eligibility Verification ,
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Foreign Workers ,
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Purchase agreements almost always attempt to limit potential successor liability for the purchaser in the deal. However, in EEOC v. Roark-Whitten Hospitality 2 et al. (“EEOC v. RW2”), the Tenth Circuit determined that a...more
Join us for a review of important state-level legal changes and trends affecting employers, including a look back at recent developments you may have missed....more
The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas’ ruling in Johnson v. Norton County Hospital is an illustrative example of the complicated and often overlapping obligations employers have under the Family Medical Leave Act...more
On June 14, 2021, the long-awaited decision was issued by the Colorado Supreme Court in Nieto v. Clark’s Market. The Colorado Supreme Court has now definitively ruled that under the Colorado Wage Claim Act employers must pay...more
The U.S. Labor Department (DOL) has revoked a Trump-era policy that reduced the pre-litigation amount an employer would have to pay to settle with the DOL for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by deemphasizing the...more
In Jones v. McDonough, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee made clear that a plaintiff cannot rely on a self-diagnosis of mental illnesses to prove that she was entitled to an accommodation under the...more
In today’s world, employers may be tempted to react quickly and with force to complaints of discrimination before allowing a complete investigation to run its course. A new decision from the U.S. District Court for the...more
3/8/2021
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Corporate Executives ,
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Employment Discrimination ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Investigations ,
On-Call Employees ,
Race Discrimination ,
Reduction of Force ,
Reverse Discrimination ,
Summary Judgment ,
Title VII ,
Zero Tolerance Policies
On December 23, 2020, the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics in the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) adopted temporary or emergency rules concerning the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA) as...more
In Andrews v. Williams WPC-I, LLC et al., 4:19-cv-02200 (M.D. Penn. July 16, 2020), the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania held that a severance package can be an adverse action under the federal Age...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has simplified the overtime exemption for commission-based workers in retail and service industries. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), some employees in retail and service...more
In November 2019, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court looked at the conflict between federal and state law concerning the calculation of overtime compensation for non-exempt salaried workers. The Court ruled that although federal...more
What does it mean within the context of the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework for a plaintiff to show she was treated less favorably than other “similarly situated” individuals? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the...more