The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank highlights many of the concerns that employers might face should they find themselves in the midst of a liquidity crisis. Making payroll, arriving at decisions related to wage...more
3/14/2023
/ Business Operations ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Furloughs ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Involuntary Reduction in Force ,
Labor Relations ,
Layoffs ,
Liquidity ,
Notice Requirements ,
Unemployment Benefits ,
Wage and Hour
The school year is several months underway, and re-opening plans vary widely for schools across the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some schools have transitioned to a distance, or remote, learning model, which require...more
11/3/2020
/ Car Dealerships ,
Child Care ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
EFMLA ,
Employee Benefits ,
EPSLA ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Paid Leave ,
Re-Opening Guidelines ,
Remote Working ,
School Closures ,
Supporting Documentation ,
Telecommuting
Following his announcement that the state could begin gradually reopening, California Governor Gavin Newsom recently released the first stages of the plan. Notably, the California Department of Public Health and Cal/OSHA...more
A federal appeals court just announced a sweeping change for agricultural employers that will make it easier for workers to bring discrimination claims against them under a joint employment theory. In last week’s EEOC v....more
2/12/2019
/ Agricultural Sector ,
Agricultural Workers ,
Appeals ,
Corrective Actions ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Housing ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
H-2A ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Contractor ,
Labor Shortage ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
National Origin Discrimination ,
Race Discrimination ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Remand ,
Reversal ,
Seasonal Employment ,
Seasonal Workers ,
Temporary Employees ,
Terms and Conditions ,
Title VII ,
Traveling Employee ,
Working Conditions
Consider the all-too-real scenario of meeting with your employee for a disciplinary discussion. At the start of the meeting, he innocently puts his phone face down on the table. Unbeknownst to you, however, anticipating the...more
With the rise of “Uber-ization” of the workforce in the gig economy, many companies, including Fortune 500 firms and IT companies, are adopting a freelance model for its workforce. It’s understandable why businesses would be...more
With the rise of the gig economy, IT companies are taking the approach many employers in the gig economy have taken in structuring their workforce. In an industry where full-time and part-time employees cohabit in the same...more
8/8/2017
/ Compensation & Benefits ,
Consultants ,
Freelance Workers ,
Full-Time Employees ,
Gig Economy ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Misclassification ,
Part-Time Employees ,
Technology Sector ,
Uber ,
Unemployment Benefits
Almost everyone would agree they prefer to work in a civil and respectful environment. Because of this, many employers have developed policies and training sessions to promote civil and respectful behavior in the workplace....more
7/10/2017
/ Civility ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Non-Union ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Section 7 ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions