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
/ Best Practices ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employee Monitoring ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Eligibility Verification ,
Employment Litigation ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Events ,
Foreign Workers ,
Form I-9 ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
NLRB ,
Remote Working ,
State Labor Laws ,
Work Visas
Non-competition agreements have been a political hot-button issue for the last year out of growing concern, on both sides of the aisle, that these agreements are overused to the detriment of employees. On the final day of...more
5/18/2022
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Confidentiality Agreements ,
Employee Training ,
Governor Polis ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Physicians ,
Reasonableness Factors ,
Reimbursements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Trade Secrets ,
Written Agreements
Just as the year is winding down and many HR professionals are looking forward to well-deserved breaks away from work, Kronos announced that it was the victim of ransomware and that UKC Workforce Central, UKG TeleStaff,...more
12/15/2021
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Biometric Information ,
Breach Notification Rule ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Hackers ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Non-Exempt Employees ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Time Cards ,
Timekeeping ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wages
Since 1940, the United States has provided some form of job protection to civilian employees who also serve their country as members of the military. Most recently, in 1994, Congress enacted the Uniformed Services...more
If an employee contracts COVID-19 at work and transmits the illness to a spouse, who then dies, is the employer liable? In Estate of William Madden v. Southwest Airlines, Co., the U.S. District Court for the District of...more
Must an employer permit an employee with a disability to job share if the employer has a flexible work policy that permits managers to create part-time job-sharing positions? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit...more
In Todd v. Fayette County School District, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reminded us that an employer’s legitimate and non-discriminatory reason for taking a challenged action need not have actually happened as long...more
A New York hospital sought to reduce the transmission of influenza by requiring employees to submit to the flu vaccine or face dismissal unless they could establish a medical contraindication warranting an exemption. A...more
4/7/2021
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Disparate Treatment ,
Employment Policies ,
Health and Safety ,
Human Rights Act ,
Influenza ,
Pregnancy ,
Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) ,
Summary Judgment ,
Termination ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
This week, the U.S. Department of Labor issued an opinion letter, FLSA021-5, explaining how to calculate an employee’s regular rate of pay and overtime when an employee performs both tip-credit and flat-rate work in a...more
One of the quieter Election Day stories out of Colorado is one that will have a significant impact on employers. Voters approved Proposition 118, the “Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Act.” Colorado joins 12 other...more
The City and County of Denver, City of Boulder, and Pitkin County have joined San Miguel County in issuing orders requiring residents to stay at home. All four stay-at-home orders drastically limit access to childcare for...more
On March 18, 2020, the president signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. In addition to provisions addressing accessibility of testing for COVID-19 and workplace safety, the law imposed new requirements...more
As the novel Coronavirus, known as Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19, begins to spread around the United States, employers are faced with the prospect of managing their business during a potential pandemic of unknown...more
When it was discovered that the perpetrator of the Orlando night club shooting was employed as an armed guard, negligence claims against his employer started rolling in. The plaintiffs alleged that the employer was negligent...more
A recent case illustrates the perils of paying women less than men – even when there appears to be a good reason to do so. In Bowen v. Manheim Remarketing, Inc., the company promoted the plaintiff, a woman, to replace a more...more
You’re a subcontractor with employees at your customer’s worksite. The customer orders you to remove an employee from the project. In fact, the customer emails you that the employee’s repeated safety complaints are killing...more
Is 6 months’ leave a reasonable accommodation? “Unsurprisingly, the answer is almost always no,” says the Tenth Circuit. Hwang v. Kansas State University, No. 13-3070 (10th Cir. May 29, 2014). Applying the Rehabilitation Act...more
6/3/2014