Wage and Hour, Risk Management, Paid Leave

A Littler Report: Operating Through Emergencies & Natural Disasters

Littler on 1/20/2025

No matter how much advance warning is provided or experience garnered, employers and employees are often caught off guard by the devastation and uncertainty natural disasters create. Whether wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes,...more

Los Angeles Fires: Employers Should Weigh Employee Needs With Current Laws

Lewitt Hackman on 1/16/2025

The recent wildfires in Los Angeles have significantly impacted businesses and their employees – employers should be aware of their responsibilities to support their workforce during this challenging time. ...more

Local, state, and federal regulation changes that could impact your policy management (and how to keep up with them)

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 9/13/2023

From labor codes and workplace safety regulations to cyber security reporting requirements, see the latest updates that may have an effect on your policy management strategy. In the ever-changing landscape of the modern...more

Ontario Employers Must Provide Employees Paid COVID-19 Leave

Bennett Jones LLP on 5/5/2021

On April 29, 2021, the Ontario Legislature passed the COVID-19 Putting Workers First Act, amending section 50.1 of Ontario's Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA). As a result, provincially regulated employers must now provide...more

Employers Advised to Use Communication, Flexibility to Mitigate COVID-19 Litigation Risks

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 10/20/2020

When weighing liability risks arising from employees contracting COVID-19 at the workplace, many employers instinctively turn to the liability waiver, a document that — in theory — will protect the employer against lawsuits...more

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Employer FAQs

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/10/2020

- The continued spread of COVID-19 presents employers with an array of unprecedented workforce management and public health challenges. - Decisions that employers may be called upon to make implicate a variety of...more