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Workplace Law Update: 12 Essential Items on Your May To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on 5/6/2024

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more

Q3 Employment Law Updates: Enforcement Actions Bring Much for Employers to Consider

DarrowEverett LLP on 10/11/2023

The third quarter of 2023 has been pretty exciting as far as employment lawyers are concerned. Substantial regulations have been proposed and the pressure from federal agencies continues to rise. We will talk about some of...more

[Event] Stronger Together: 2022 Labor & Employment Law Seminar - October 24th, Roanoke, VA

Woods Rogers on 9/27/2022

Strong collaboration between HR and legal is crucial in the ever-changing landscape of labor and employment laws. Working together can help you avoid potential legal risks and find quick resolutions to employee-related...more

[Event] Stronger Together: 2022 Labor & Employment Law Seminar - October 20th, Charlottesville, VA

Woods Rogers on 9/26/2022

Strong collaboration between HR and legal is crucial in the ever-changing landscape of labor and employment laws. Working together can help you avoid potential legal risks and find quick resolutions to employee-related...more

[Hybrid Event] Stronger Together: 2022 Labor & Employment Law Seminar - October 19th, Norfolk, VA

Woods Rogers on 9/23/2022

Strong collaboration between HR and legal is crucial in the ever-changing landscape of labor and employment laws. Working together can help you avoid potential legal risks and find quick resolutions to employee-related...more

[Event] Stronger Together: 2022 Labor & Employment Law Seminar - October 13th, Richmond, VA

Woods Rogers on 9/22/2022

Strong collaboration between HR and legal is crucial in the ever-changing landscape of labor and employment laws. Working together can help you avoid potential legal risks and find quick resolutions to employee-related...more

[Event] Stronger Together: 2022 Labor & Employment Law Seminar - October 6th, Lynchburg, VA

Woods Rogers on 9/21/2022

Strong collaboration between HR and legal is crucial in the ever-changing landscape of labor and employment laws. Working together can help you avoid potential legal risks and find quick resolutions to employee-related...more

SuperVision - Labor and Employment Insights, Issue 3, 2022

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 9/9/2022

The NLRB Proposes to Re-Re-Revise Its Joint Employer Standard - On September 6, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board issued a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the standard for determining joint employer status...more

Profanity or Protected Speech?

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 8/30/2022

Imagine this, an employee writes profanity (“whore board”) on a company bulletin board, the employer terminates the employee for the profanity, and the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) holds that the employee’s...more

Explicit Graffiti Case Illuminates The Necessity of Consistent and Uniform Enforcement of Anti-Bias Workplace Rules

Amundsen Davis LLC on 8/15/2022

In Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood v. NLRB, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit addressed the tension between a worker’s Section 7 protected and concerted activity rights under the National...more

The Top 5 (Non-COVID-19) Developments In Dealership Employment Law

Fisher Phillips on 8/5/2020

You have probably seen a lot of coronavirus news alerts lately, but as a car dealer, you already know that germs are not the only things that can cause headaches. Virus or no virus, the law is still going to change and...more

Web Exclusive: June 2019: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 7/15/2019

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

Prepping for Full Compliance! Five Important Legal Compliance Issues Impacting the Hospitality Industry

Epstein Becker & Green on 5/15/2019

Hospitality remains at the forefront of demanding industries where employers must be ever vigilant in their efforts to ensure full compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations. We highlight below...more

Employment Law in the Health Care Industry: 2018 Year in Review

K&L Gates LLP on 2/5/2019

2018 brought developments in employment law issues that have particular relevance to the health care industry. These include continuing developments regarding employee resistance to vaccination mandates, increased...more

Employment Flash - January 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/31/2019

This edition of Employment Flash looks at developments in labor and employment law, including with respect to restrictive covenants; new state anti-harassment laws; minimum wage increases; age bias claims; and the employee...more

[Event] 2019 Employment Law Update - January 23rd, San Francisco, CA

Weintraub Tobin on 1/7/2019

Join the attorneys from Weintraub Tobin’s Labor and Employment Group as they discuss important legal developments from 2018 and review a number of new laws facing employers in 2019. Program Highlights: • New Federal...more

II-35- The New Sexual Harassment Training/Policy Requirements in New York State and New York City

Cozen O'Connor on 9/26/2018

This special episode discusses the new sexual harassment training and policy requirements imposed by New York State and New York City (following a brief discussion of a significant development on joint employer liability)....more

The BakerHostetler Quarterly New York Employment Law Newsletter

BakerHostetler on 7/20/2018

Welcome to the first edition of The BakerHostetler Quarterly New York Employment Law Newsletter. We are pleased to share our analysis of some of the key employment trends that affected New York employers in 2017, and our...more

Lessons for Employers in the Case of a Former Google Software Engineer Fired for Violating Company Anti-Discrimination Policies

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 2/26/2018

Earlier this week, an NLRB attorney issued an advice memo concluding that software giant Google did not violate Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"), when the company terminated software engineer James...more

Our Nominees for the Top 20 California Employment Law Risks

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 1/29/2018

New laws pop up in California on a regular basis, as summarized by our What’s New for 2018 advisory. Meanwhile, California employers must also be mindful of the laws already on the books, many of which pose traps for the...more

Unfortunately, Offensive Racial Comments Don’t Always Get You Fired (At Least Under Labor Law)

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/24/2015

Under the National Labor Relations Act, certain union activities are considered “protected.” That is, employees engaging in union activity, or union representatives carrying out their duties in the context of grievance...more

15 For ’15: Employment And Labor Resolutions For The New Year

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 1/8/2015

While the year is still young, here are 15 New Year’s resolutions that employers may want to make: 1. Make sure your “independent contractors” are really independent contractors. ”Independent contractors” are under...more

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