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July is Still the New January! Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute’s Mid-Year Legislative Report

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Hot off the press – here is Littler’s mid-year report!  As federal regulators, states and cities continue to pass new workplace regulations through the calendar year, we summarize each state’s notable labor and employment law...more

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Employers Should Take Note Of New Federal Workplace Accessibility Guidance

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Recent guidance from the EEOC on federal agencies’ disability accommodation obligations contain insights for private employers as well....more

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New York City Passes Bill Requiring Employers to Provide an “Employee Bill of Rights” to All Employees Regardless of Immigration...

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On December 3, 2023, the New York City Council passed a bill requiring the Department of Consumer and Worker Production (DCWP), in coordination with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA), the New York City Commission...more

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UK Imposes New Duty on Employers to Prevent Sexual Harassment

On 26 October 2023, the UK Parliament announced that the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) bill received Royal Assent (therefore, becoming the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023). ...more

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SEC Levies a Six Figure Fine Against a Private Company for Language in Its Separation Agreements, Continuing the Aggressive...

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The Security and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) continues to aggressively enforce its whistleblower program under the Biden Administration. As we have reported, the SEC has cracked down on employers’ agreements and procedures...more

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“Try, Try Again” – OSHA Introduces Yet Another Electronic Data Reporting Rule, But Still May Not Have Found Success

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​"Oops, [it] did it again." Analogous to Ms. Spears's lyric, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) once again causes a reset across multiple industries with its third iteration of an electronic data...more

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Privacy Reset in 2023: Effective January 1: What Employers Need to Know About Additional Rights in the California Privacy Rights...

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For most companies, human resource departments handle one of their most valuable and sensitive information assets: the personal data of their employees and job candidates. While this dataset provides employers a goldmine of...more

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Cal/OSHA Approves Non-Emergency COVID-19 Standard In Time for the Holidays

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On Thursday, December 15, 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (“OSHSB”) approved the long-proposed 2-year “permanent” COVID-19 standard. The new standard will take effect on January 1,...more

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Cal/OSHA Will Not Alter the Proposed Non-Emergency COVID Regulation Now on Course to Become Effective January 1, 2023

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During a meeting of the Cal/OSHA Standards Board on November 17, 2022, Cal/OSHA’s Chief Deputy for Health and Research Standards unequivocally stated that no further modifications will be made to the proposed non-emergency...more

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Cal/OSHA Issues Guidance on Protecting Workers From Monkeypox

​​​​​​​On September 13, 2022, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) issued guidance regarding protection of workers from monkeypox (MPX) under the Aerosol Transmissible Disease (ATD) Standard,...more

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Updated CDC COVID-19 Guidance Eliminates Precautionary Quarantine, Focuses on Boosters, Masking, and Testing

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On August 11, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems.  Observing that increasing...more

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What Do the CDC COVID-19 Updates Mean For My Business?

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As many of you have likely heard, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) extensively revised its recommendations for how to address COVID-19. These broad updates are going to result in a major overhaul of the...more

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New York City Employers Will Be Required to Post Salary Ranges in Job Advertisements as of April 2022

Under a new law passed by the New York City Council, which will go into effect in April 2022 if not vetoed by January 14, 2022, employers in New York City will have to include the minimum and maximum starting salary for any...more

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New York Publishes Guidance on Adult Cannabis Use and the Workplace – 4 Key Facts for Employers

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New York employers have been anxiously awaiting additional information about how the legalization of recreational marijuana will impact the workplace – and they finally have some. The state’s Office of Cannabis Management...more

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Updated Workplace Covid-19 Guidance Gives Employers More Flexibility And Responsibility

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On 19 July 2021, so-called “freedom day”, England moved onto Step 4 of its roadmap out of COVID-19 restrictions. In conjunction with this milestone, the UK Government released updated “working safely during coronavirus”...more

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New York Employers Must Act Immediately to Comply with NY HERO Act

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New York employers must take immediate steps to comply with statutory requirements aimed at preventing the spread of infectious disease in the workplace. As previously reported, in May New York State passed the NY HERO Act,...more

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Canada’s Pay Equity Act to Take Effect on August 31, 2021: Key Considerations for Federal Employers

The Pay Equity Act, which Canada’s federal government passed in 2018, is going into effect on August 31, 2021. The act aims to address the systemic gender-based discrimination faced by women in federally regulated sectors by...more

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Texas Legislature Expands Employee Protection for Sexual Harassment Claims

Effective September 1, 2021, any employer that employs “one or more employees” or that “acts directly in the interests of an employer in relation to an employee” will be considered an employer under Texas law and subject to a...more

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USCIS Issues Policies to Improve Immigration Services: What Employers and Foreign Nationals Need to Know

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced three new policy updates to the USCIS Policy Manual aimed at improving access to immigration benefits. The updated policies: • Clarify the criteria for expedited...more

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The New York HERO Act: What Employers Need to Know

Echoing his mantra of building back better, on May 5, 2021, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the New York Health and Essential Rights Act (NY HERO Act), which mandates extensive new workplace health and safety...more

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[Ongoing Program] 2021 Life Sciences Bootcamp Series - Employment Hot Topics - May 17th, 12:30 pm ET

Life sciences organizations have become some of the world’s most watched businesses and the industry as a whole is facing heightened scrutiny in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The transactional and regulatory issues as...more

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11th Circuit Reminds Employers to Provide Injured Employees with FMLA Rights Separate and Apart from the Workers’ Compensation...

In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit determined that an employer could be found liable for violating the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) when it failed to provide an employee with notice...more

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New COBRA Notices Must Be Issued by May 31

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On April 9, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued new guidance about the COBRA subsidy available under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Employers subject to COBRA must send out the updates notices as soon as possible...more

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2,000 COVID-19-Related Employment Lawsuits Filed In The U.S.: An Analysis Of The Data And Trends

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On April 6, 2021, the total number of COVID-19-related employment complaints filed in United States courts passed the 2,000 mark. Although it took eight months to reach the first 1,000 complaints (March–November 2020), it...more

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This Won’t Hurt a Bit: Employee Temperature and Health Screenings – A List of Statewide Orders (UPDATED)

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Governors and public health officials across the country have implemented stringent measures to help contain the spread of COVID-19, such as safer at home and face covering mandates. Some jurisdictions also require employers...more

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