Latest Publications

Share:

OFCCP Guidance Expands Federal Scrutiny of Artificial Intelligence Use by Employers

Introduction - On 29 April 2024, the US Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued nonbinding guidance (Guidance) on how federal contractors and subcontractors (collectively...more

Proposed Rule by the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council Would Ban the Use of Salary History Data by Federal Contractors and...

On 29 January 2024, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) that would prohibit federal contractors and subcontractors from seeking and considering information...more

Practical Takeaways for Employers from the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision

On 29 June 2023, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, and reversed the longstanding rule that race can be considered as a plus factor among...more

Delaware Court Finds Corporate Officers Have Duty of Oversight and Sexual Harassment Can Be a Breach of the Duty of Loyalty

Overview - On 26 January 2023, the Delaware Court of Chancery (the Court) issued an important decision for corporations and their officers, finding for the first time that corporate officers—not just directors—owe a fiduciary...more

2022 Health Care Employment Law Year in Review

Health care employment law was once again a critical focus for many legislative bodies in 2022. While much of our 2021 Year in Review focused on how states addressed the COVID-19 pandemic itself, most notably with respect to...more

DOL Announces Expansion of OSHA's Authority to Issue Increased Instance-By-Instance Citations and Penalties

The Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued new enforcement guidance expanding its authority to issue instance-by-instance (IBI) citations for...more

Update: OFCCP Clarifies Position in Favor of Attorney-Client Privilege in Revised Pay Equity Directive

Effective 18 August 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP) revised Directive 2022-01 on “Advancing Pay Equity Through Compensation Analysis” (the Revised Directive) to provide further explanation of how OFCCP...more

OFCCP and Federal Contractors are Significant Focus of Executive Branch Actions for Equal Pay Day

This Alert addresses the following: The Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP) has issued its first Directive of the Biden Administration, the Pay Equity Audit Directive (DIR 2022-01) (Directive)....more

Congress Passes #MeToo Bill to Nullify Forced Arbitration of Workplace Sexual Harassment and Assault Claims

Congress has passed a transformative bill inspired by the #MeToo movement that would allow employees to avoid enforcement of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in workplace sexual assault or harassment claims. The bill, which...more

2021 Health Care Employment Law Year in Review

Health care-related employment laws became a prevalent topic in 2021—the year of the COVID-19 vaccination mandates. States and the federal government continued to adopt differing approaches on mandates affecting different...more

The "Maine" Takeaway from the First Circuit's Decision to Uphold Maine's Healthcare Vaccination Mandate

Employers across the nation, especially those in the healthcare industry, continue to grapple with ever-changing and complex state and federal legislation regarding COVID-19 vaccinations. On 19 October 2021, the U.S. Court of...more

Doing Business in the United States

Companies operating in the United States encounter numerous legal and regulatory issues arising from doing business in the world’s largest economy. Anticipating and dealing appropriately with those issues can improve markedly...more

COVID-19: Are Your Workplace Safety Compliance Policies Medium-Rare or Well-Done?

On 21 January 2021, President Biden issued an executive order directing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health to issue new guidance for...more

Working Wise: Transitioning to the “New” Normal -- Strategic Considerations for Moving to Long-Term Work From Home

A number of businesses that historically operated in a traditional office environment have been forced into temporary work-from-home arrangements due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These businesses are now considering...more

COVID-19: K&L Gates Triage: Workplace Safety Highlights from the CDC’s May 2020 “Ten Ways Healthcare Systems Can Operate...

In this week’s episode, Leann Walsh identifies key takeaways for hospitals and other health care employers from a guidance document recently published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) entitled “Ten Ways Healthcare...more

COVID-19: Working with Third-Party Service Providers and Their Personnel for a Safer Reopening

As states start to lift or relax restrictive measures implemented at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses are preparing to reopen in some capacity. As highlighted in K&L Gates’ recently published Reopening...more

Working Wise: 2019 Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 Department of Labor Opinion Letter Updates

The U.S. Department of Labor released three opinion letters in 2019 regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA). In this episode, Leann Walsh, Melanie Stratton Lopez, and Avery Miller summarize the opinion...more

K&L Gates Triage: Time’s Up Health Care: The Current Climate of Sexual Harassment in Health Care and Important Considerations of...

With the recent launch of Time's Up Health Care and the publication of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture and Consequences in Academic Sciences,...more

Employment Law in the Health Care Industry: 2018 Year in Review

2018 brought developments in employment law issues that have particular relevance to the health care industry. These include continuing developments regarding employee resistance to vaccination mandates, increased...more

As Harassment Claims and Recoveries Continue to Increase, EEOC Report Analyzes Root Causes and Remedies

Introduction - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has released its Preliminary Fiscal Year 2018 Sexual Harassment Data (“Preliminary Data”), showing a significant increase in workplace harassment lawsuits....more

K&L Gates Triage: Accidental Domination and Interference with “Labor Organizations” by the Modern Health Care Employer

In light of the recent #MeToo movement and ongoing public discourse regarding workplace culture, employers in the health care industry are increasingly seeking creative ways to improve their own workplace culture, such as...more

Working Wise: United States Department of Labor, Wage & Hour Division – Pilot PAID Program

In this episode, Leann Walsh provides an overview of the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) new Payroll Audit Independent Determination Program (PAID). PAID is a six-month nationwide pilot program of the Wage and Hour Division...more

23 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide