With the labor shortage, you may have started considering expanding your applicant pool to groups of potential employees you had not previously considered, like minors. Even if you have not yet considered hiring minors, you...more
11/15/2022
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Minors ,
Posting Requirements ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Rest and Meal Break ,
State Labor Laws ,
Tennessee ,
Wage and Hour ,
Work Permits ,
Work Schedules
Restaurants’ reliance on food delivery apps soared during the pandemic because they provide a convenient way for customers to order from local restaurants and an easy solution for processing restaurant payments and sourcing...more
10/4/2022
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Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Minimum Wage ,
Mobile Apps ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Tip Credit ,
Tipped Employees ,
Tips ,
Wage & Hour Division (WHD) ,
Wage and Hour
One of the nation’s most powerful federal appeals courts just ruled that the NLRB was correct when it said a West Virginia-based manufacturing company couldn’t fire a worker for vulgar comments because it failed to...more
A federal court in Pennsylvania recently ruled a discharged nurse’s disability discrimination claim can proceed to trial based on her request for an accommodation during her interview and alleged comments by her supervisor...more
Do you have a mandatory vaccination policy? Are you exempt from Tennessee’s COVID-19 vaccine protection law because you’re a federally regulated company, healthcare provider governed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare &...more
In response to OSHA’s Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard that seeks to require covered employers across the country to either mandate the vaccine or test for COVID-19 on a weekly basis, Tennessee Governor...more
How confident are you that you have properly classified your employees as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), or that your employees’ exempt status has not been affected by COVID-19 workplace changes? Over the...more
While many expected healthcare employers to be among the first to mandate COVID-19 vaccination, the vast majority still appear to be opting to encourage or incentivize vaccination instead. Employee relations concerns,...more
5/4/2021
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Health and Safety ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Title VII ,
Unions ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
An often-overlooked free resource available to employers and practitioners, the Department of Labor’s opinion letters provide guidance to interpret federal wage and hour law. However, just as the Obama administration placed...more
After much heated negotiation in passing Stimulus 2.0, Congress reached a compromise on employee COVID-19 leave, allowing the leave requirements of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) to expire on December 31,...more
Following the CDC’s designation of Tennessee as the worst state in the country for new COVID-19 cases by population, Governor Lee issued Executive Order 70 urging all employers to implement remote work arrangements. The...more
12/23/2020
/ Business Closures ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Executive Orders ,
Governor Lee ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Non-Essential Businesses ,
Public Health ,
Remote Working ,
Shelter-In-Place ,
Workplace Safety
In a new effort to temper the rising COVID-19 spread, the Shelby County Health Department just issued a new health directive imposing new restrictions on “high risk settings,” including restaurants, bars, and gyms, which took...more
11/25/2020
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employee Training ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Grants ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Masks ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Public Health ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Workplace Safety
In an effort to temper the rising COVID-19 positivity rate, the Shelby County (TN) Health Department issued its Public Health Directive No. 8, requiring the closure of some businesses and imposing new requirements on all...more
On the heels of Shelby County’s decision to remain in Phase 2 of its Back to Business Plan, the Memphis City Council just approved a new Ordinance requiring individuals within the City of Memphis to wear a face covering or...more
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland recently issued an update to the March 23 Safer at Home Executive Order. While most Tennessee counties plan for businesses to begin reopening on May 1, Memphis will remain under its Safer-at-Home...more
Although other counties in Tennessee already have issued similar mandates regarding restaurants, bars, and fitness clubs in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed Executive Order 17 on...more
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland just issued the Safer at Home Executive Order on March 23, an extension of the Declaration of Civil Emergency issued last week. The Order directs all residents of Memphis to remain inside their...more