The Impact of the Great Resignation
#WorkforceWednesday: Congress Passes Relief Bill, EEOC's Vaccine Guidance, Return to Work Delayed - Employment Law This Week®
Slamming the door on 2020 and looking ahead to 2021
Dealing with The CARES Act and the Current Status of Offsets in Pennsylvania Workers Compensation
#WorkforceWednesday: COVID-19 Executive Actions, Right-to-Sue Notices, and Liability Shields
Successful Return-to-Work Strategies post-COVID-19
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Coronavirus Employment Law Update for Contractors (DMV)
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I-21 – Sexual Harassment (Still), Political Tweeting, and Intersectional Discrimination
2017 West Virginia Legislative Update For Employers
The landscape of federal military leave law may be shifting. In the past three years, four federal appellate courts have held that an employer may be required to offer paid leave for an employee’s military service where the...more
California employers know that the new year inevitably brings new workplace laws that are finalized at the end of the state’s legislative session in the fall. This year, state lawmakers considered over 2,700 bills – the most...more
Later this month, we will report on all the new employment-related laws that California has enacted for 2024. However, this article focuses on the bills that Newsom vetoed. Some of these are a bit of a surprise...more
In recent weeks, New York enacted various employment laws that provide additional protections for New York employees. After reviewing the below, which summarizes the new laws in descending order of effective date, employers...more
Traditionally, January 1 has been the key date for which employers must prepare to implement new labor and employment compliance obligations for new laws passed within the previous year. For the past several years, we have...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Beginning July 31, 2023, New Jersey employers will face additional unemployment insurance reporting obligations and significantly increased penalties for noncompliance with new amendments to the...more
The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank highlights many of the concerns that employers might face should they find themselves in the midst of a liquidity crisis. Making payroll, arriving at decisions related to wage...more
In 2022, federal and state laws regulating wages and hours of work continued to change and develop. In “2022 Wage and Hour Developments: A Year in Review,” we look back on significant wage and hour developments at the federal...more
This detailed set of Frequently Asked Questions, fully updated for 2022, addresses the workplace-related issues facing employers in the wake of hurricane-related disasters. In addition to legal obligations you need to...more
A recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court makes this a good time for companies using independent contractors to review those arrangements. In East Bay Drywall v. Department of Labor & Workforce Development, the...more
It used to be that employers had the luxury of waiting until January 1 to be vigilant for new employment laws and compliant challenges. For the past several years, we have reported on employment and labor laws taking effect...more
On March 11, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). The ARPA is the latest installment of COVID-19–related stimulus packages passed by Congress in the last 12 months. Similar to the...more
President Joseph R. Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARP”) on March 11, 2021, which provides $1.9 trillion in relief funds for individuals and businesses in response to the coronavirus pandemic. This...more
Almost one year after the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), and with the second extension of pandemic unemployment assistance about to expire for millions of workers on March...more
Tonight the President is expected to announce on the major networks and cable news services that he will sign into law tomorrow the next stimulus bill called the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which Congress passed...more
In his first days in office, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued a flurry of executive orders. Notably, President Biden instructed the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to issue new instructions to state unemployment agencies...more
Late in the day on December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020, which contains the latest in coronavirus relief measures. The massive 5,593-page legislation covers a wide variety of...more
On December 27, the President signed the next stimulus bill that Congress passed on December 21. The legislation extends unemployment assistance not only for employees but also for independent contractors and other...more
The incoming Biden Administration promises a more nationalized approach to combatting the COVID-19 public health crisis, plus a large economic stimulus response focused on unemployment, paid leave, state and local government...more
While much attention is currently focused on whether Congress will extend, in whole or in part, the emergency $600 increase in unemployment insurance benefits (“UI”) that, until July 31, 2020, had been provided by the CARES...more
On July 21, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) advised state unemployment insurance administrators that workers who lost their jobs due to COVID-19 and then refuse work that would unreasonably expose them to the virus...more
On May 11, 2020, a Pennsylvania court upheld the state Unemployment Compensation Board of Review’s order granting a CBD (cannabidiol) user unemployment benefits after being terminated for testing positive for marijuana...more
On April 27, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its latest guidance to state unemployment agencies regarding the application of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) to impacted individuals in Unemployment...more
On April 28, the U.S. Department of Labor issued additional guidance to state agencies regarding recently expanded unemployment benefits. The Q&A format followed a DOL webinar where many of the questions addressed were first...more
Because of closures related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the U.S., an increasing number of employees have been laid off. As a result, employers may be looking for options to better assist employees who have been...more