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Workers' compensation benefits in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are calculated using a statewide average weekly wage as determined by their departments of labor every year. The year of the worker's injury determines the rates...more
On December 3, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) introduced a Final Rule to end an employer’s ability to pay individuals with disabilities subminimum wages under federal law....more
On Dec. 3, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to phase out the issuance of Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Section 14(c) certificates that allow...more
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
On Monday, the federal Department of Labor announced a proposed rule that eliminates a special subminimum wage for certain employees with disabilities under the Fair Labor Standards Act....more
Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a new initiative, the “AI & Inclusive Hiring Framework,” funded by the DOL’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). This framework is a voluntary resource to...more
During her inauguration as president of Mexico on Oct. 1, 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum presented the key commitments of her government plan for the next six years. Her agenda includes several labor-related proposals, as well as...more
The work on creating equal opportunities for persons with disabilities is underway at the legislative level in Kazakhstan, including the development of the draft law On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of...more
In Germany, every new year brings with it changes and updates in employment law. We have summarized below which new regulations may want to prepare for in the course of 2024....more
Robert Friesen v. State of Florida Highway Patrol/Division of Risk Management, NO .1D21-1353 On appeal from Judge Massey, Decision date: Jun. 21, 2023 - The claimant, a law-enforcement officer, was hired in 2004 after...more
That's one way to get employers to allow remote work. We all know that employers with 15 or more employees are covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act and may have to provide reasonable accommodations to allow...more
Morals based on a real court decision. My law partner Jon Yarbrough alerted me to a recent court decision that is full of little gems for employers. I thought I'd break the decision down into "true fables," each with a...more
A partir del próximo 1 de abril de 2023, las personas trabajadoras en situación de incapacidad temporal dentro de los primeros 365 días de duración no tendrán la obligación de entregar en su empresa el parte de baja médica...more
An employee is injured on the job and cannot immediately return to work. Whether to offer salary continuation or permit temporary total disability compensation to be paid under the workers’ compensation claim is a...more
At one time or another, one of your employees may have had a serious health condition resulting in multiple absences, followed by a release to return to work with restrictions that you believed prevented the employee from...more
Even if “somnambulism” is a disability, an employee who sleepwalks uninvited into the hotel room of her co-worker has no protection, according to a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit....more
Please join our Employment Group on February 3, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT for a webinar covering significant new employment legislation in California, as well as case law developments and evolving COVID-19...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
Given the rapidly spreading omicron variant, employers with as few as five employees are well advised to refresh themselves on their obligations under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) and its California counterpart, the...more
The close of the 2021 California legislative session brings forth a series of new wage and hour laws that impact employers and take effect on January 1, 2022. Assembly Bill (AB) 286 addresses food delivery, including...more
On June 16, 2021, Hawaii enacted Senate Bill 793 (the “Act”), which repeals an exemption to the minimum wage for disabled employees, often referred to as “the disability subminimum wage.” The Act took effect immediately and...more
In Carlile v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., 988 F.3d 1217 (10th Cir. 2021), the Tenth Circuit found the term "active" full-time employee ambiguous and awarded disability benefits to an employee who became disabled after...more
Reversing a district court’s grant of summary judgment, the Iowa Court of Appeals held an employee presented sufficient evidence for her disability-based hostile work environment claim to proceed to trial, despite the...more
California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), the agency charged with administering California’s employment discrimination statute and regulations, has updated its COVID-19 guidance for employers. The updates...more
Now that the inauguration has passed and the Biden administration has begun its work, it is a good time for retailers to take stock of the labor and employment issues that are likely to assume prominence in 2021, and to...more