In the newest episode of The Employment Law Counselor in collaboration with the Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Jeff is joined by Tanya Salgado, Partner, to discuss how religious discrimination and religious...more
On April 17, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its much-anticipated decision in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. Reversing the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the unanimous Court held...more
4/25/2024
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Transfers ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Lateral Transfers ,
Muldrow v City of St Louis ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Title VII
Join us on March 21 for this topical webinar which will examine two of the latest trends facing employers. This session will examine what employers need to know and do as AI continues to impact the workplace, including a...more
3/8/2024
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Best Practices ,
Bias ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
New Legislation ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Protected Class ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Sick Leave ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars
On September 9, 2021, the Biden Administration announced a new strategy to combat COVID-19, the “Path Out of the Pandemic: President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan.” This plan includes new COVID-19 safety mandates for private...more
9/24/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Mandates ,
Employment Policies ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Healthcare Workers ,
OSHA ,
Private Sector ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Safety
With the Delta variant on an upswing and COVID-19 vaccines widely available, more and more employers are considering implementing mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies in the workplace. This is especially true for employers...more
8/5/2021
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Disability Discrimination ,
EEO ,
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) ,
Employer Mandates ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Exemption ,
Title VII ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
Presenters will provide recent legal developments, trends and cases that impact workplace practices and operations; issues related to Covid will be incorporated throughout the presentations. Programming will be presented in...more
5/25/2021
/ Continuing Legal Education ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Medical Marijuana ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Injury ,
Workplace Safety
The FDA’s emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is raising hope across the nation of a return to some semblance of normalcy in the months to come. In light of...more
12/22/2020
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Disability Discrimination ,
EEO ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
GINA ,
Guidance Update ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Moderna Inc. ,
OSHA ,
Pfizer ,
Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Rehabilitation Act ,
Religious Exemption ,
Title VII ,
Undue Hardship ,
Vaccinations
Please join members of the White and Williams Labor and Employment Group for a webinar discussing the employment issues related to the forthcoming COVID-19 vaccine(s).
In this webinar, our presenters will discuss:
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As hospitals, large healthcare providers and employers in other industries prepare for the vaccine rollout, many will institute mandatory vaccination policies for their workforce. Employers who implement mandatory vaccination...more
12/10/2020
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Employee Rights ,
Employee Training ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
FEHA ,
Health Care Providers ,
Proposed Guidance ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Undue Hardship ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
With our country’s healthcare systems on the verge of collapse, there is some encouraging news to report – recent trials of COVID-19 vaccines with promising results have been announced and it is likely that one or more...more
12/2/2020
/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
First Responders ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Immunization Exemptions ,
Local Health Departments (LHDs) ,
Public Health ,
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn New York v. Cuomo ,
SCOTUS ,
State Health Departments ,
Vaccinations
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) has issued revisions and clarifications to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) temporary rule, in response to a ruling by a federal district court that had found...more
The City of Philadelphia recently enacted an ordinance providing workplace protections for employees who refuse to work in unsafe conditions if they reasonably believe that their employer is violating a COVID-19 public health...more
With the process of allowing non-essential businesses to reopen beginning, businesses are being confronted with numerous complex and inter-related questions on how to best proceed with restarting operations. This process will...more
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has announced new measures to be taken by those businesses deemed life-sustaining to further mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and to protect the safety of employees and customers. On April 15,...more
On Thursday, February 6, 2020, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order upholding Philadelphia’s Salary History Ordinance (the Ordinance). Philadelphia was an early adopter of legislation prohibiting inquiries into...more
2/10/2020
/ Appeals ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Pay ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Local Ordinance ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Vacated ,
Wage and Hour
New Jersey employers should take note of a newly enacted amendment to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) that directly impacts employment agreements and settlement agreements of discrimination claims. The...more
3/22/2019
/ #MeToo ,
Amended Legislation ,
Arbitration ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Policies ,
Governor Murphy ,
Retaliation ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
State Labor Laws ,
Unenforceable Contract Terms
Court distinguishes between unlawful “Reliance” on wage history in setting wage rates and lawful “Inquiries” into wage history -
The City of Philadelphia was the first city in the United States to enact an ordinance...more
5/3/2018
/ Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Pay ,
First Amendment ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Local Ordinance ,
New Legislation ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Wage and Hour