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Colorado Employers Take Note: Are You Complying with the Job Application Fairness Act?

Beginning July 1, 2024, Colorado will officially begin enforcing a restriction prohibiting employers from asking job applicants to disclose their age on an employment application. Colorado joins California, Connecticut,...more

The Holidays Have Us Thinking About FAMLI

It is already that time of the year — year-end holidays, good food, colder weather, and the opportunity to assess new laws that are set to go into effect at the start of the next calendar year. For Colorado employers,...more

My Employees Are Using ChatGPT. What Now?

In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI), one development stands out for its transformative potential: the rise of generative AI tools. Many major technology companies are building the large language...more

EEOC Issues Updated Technical Guidance on COVID-19 and the ADA, Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws

The COVID-19 pandemic presented numerous challenges for employers and workplaces across the globe. While COVID is not gone, the federal government did recently end the federal public health emergency. Shortly thereafter, on...more

Top Tips for Utilizing OSHA Accident and Injury Data

In the past few decades, the world has seen an explosion in the quantity and accessibility of business-generated workplace data. As a result, employers have increasingly prioritized data analytics (the use of statistical and...more

Current Employees May Have Pay Transparency Rights Too

As our readers are aware, pay transparency laws were a trending national topic in 2022, and we have not seen this trend slow down to begin 2023. We recently wrote about the various pay transparency laws that went into...more

How To Navigate New State Pay Transparency Laws In 2023

A recent wave of pay transparency laws aimed at improving pay equity has left many employers confused about how to recruit across state lines. This article provides a summary of key pay disclosure requirements across the...more

Colorado Supreme Court To Hear Challenge to Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Act

Colorado is among a handful of U.S. states operating on the cutting edge of various employee pay, benefits, and mobility rights initiatives. We previously blogged about a few of these initiatives, including Colorado’s recent...more

#MeToo2022: I’ll See You In Court, If I Want To – Congress Passes Ban on Mandatory Arbitration of Sexual Harassment and Assault...

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, several states, such as California, have taken steps to ban mandatory arbitration clauses that cover claims of sexual harassment and assault. However, such prohibitions have decidedly not...more

Employers Beware: Colorado Criminalizes Enforcement of Overbroad Non-Competes

In keeping with the national trend of aggressively pursuing limitations on or prohibitions against non-competition agreements, the State of Colorado recently enacted first-of-its-kind criminal penalties for employers seeking...more

Update on Texas Executive Order GA-40 (Regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates)

On December 8, 2021, the Texas Workforce Commission (“TWC”) sent a letter to all employers in the state of Texas setting forth its position on Executive Order GA-40. Specifically, as we informed you on December 1, 2021,...more

Is it Unfair to Restrict Unfair Competition? The FTC May Soon Make Their Stance Known

If you utilize non-competition agreements in your business to protect your trade secrets, customer goodwill, and business relationships, then today’s update is an important one for you. Earlier this month, the Federal...more

New Texas Law Shields Businesses From COVID-19 Liability

On June 14, 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law SB 6, a bill granting retroactive civil liability protections for large and small businesses, and a variety of health care providers and first responders subjected to...more

Under New Management – Department of Labor Proposes Rescinding Joint Employer Rule Narrowed Under Trump Administration

When should an entity be considered a joint employer for purposes of federal wage and hour law? The answer to that question has been in a state of flux for the past few years, but as of Thursday, March 11, the U.S. Department...more

California Does It Again: Employers Not Subject to FFCRA Must Now Provide COVID-19 Supplemental Sick Leave | Blogs | Labor &...

On September 9, 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1867 (AB 1867). The new law considerably broadens access to paid sick leave beyond the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) — essentially...more

New York is the First State to Fill in the Gaps of Federal Paid Leave Law

As we have discussed, there are notable gaps in the recently passed Federal Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act, including exempting employers with over 500 employees and authorizing the Secretary of Labor to grant hardship...more

New Sick Leave Guidance for San Antonio Employers

San Antonio remains one of three Texas cities, along with Austin and Dallas, currently working to implement a paid sick leave ordinance. This past summer, we reported about the then-pending San Antonio sick leave ordinance,...more

OFCCP Introduces Virtual Compliance Help Desk, Continuing Its Trend Toward Increased Cooperation with Federal Contractors

As we have previously noted for readers who are federal contractors and subcontractors, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) continues to make good on its express goals of...more

What the NLRB Can Teach You About Documenting Employee Misconduct

Innocent mistakes are an unfortunate reality in our fast-paced, technology-driven society. But an employer does not have to tolerate an employee doubling down on his mistake by deceiving his employer and actively impeding an...more

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