What Can the Show Severance Teach Us About Work-Life Balance? - Hiring to Firing Podcast
Dos Toros - Maintaining Culture While Scaling (and Having Fun)
III-43-Expert Roundtable Discussion on the Impact of Recent Regulatory Initiatives on Recruitment, Retention and the Retail Industry
III-41- Things That Make You Go “Hmmm” in Employment Law
Employment Law This Week®: OSHA’s Reporting Rule Rollback, CA’s Salary History Ban, NYC’s Temporary Schedule Change Law, Model FMLA Forms Expired
Episode 17: Predictable Schedules And Comp Time – The Next Wage & Hour Frontiers?
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
It is looking increasingly likely that fast food employers in New York City will have to deal with troubling new workplace regulations in the near future, including the prospect of increased penalties for violations,...more
California lawmakers just passed the first bill in the nation that aims to enact specific workplace rules and standards for fast-food employees – a move that could have devastating consequences for the industry. The Fast Food...more
New York City workplace regulators just finalized rules for New York City’s Fair Workweek and just cause laws for fast food workers – and there are some changes from the initial proposals that may come as a surprise to...more
The last two years have been an interesting respite for California employers. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the legislature – just like other businesses – which resulted in abbreviated legislative schedules, fewer bills...more
New York City regulators recently proposed new rules that will further burden fast food employers, revealing a mixed bag of employer-unfriendly interpretations of existing city law while introducing potentially immense...more
Q. Can you explain to me Philadelphia’s new Fair Workweek Ordinance? A. In late December 2018, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney signed an Ordinance that will require large fast-food chains, retailers, and hotels to provide...more
In June 2018, Philadelphia City Councilmember Helen Gym introduced legislation designed to improve predictability in scheduled shifts for employees in the retail, hospitality, and food services sector – the second largest...more
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
Oregon’s new employee scheduling law – impacting hourly employees at large retail, food service, and hospitality employers – goes into effect after the end of this week, on July 1. Affected employers must now be aware of the...more
Most New York City employers are probably familiar with the Fair Workweek Law that went into effect Jan. 1, 2018, but surely not all New York City employers are. That is likely because until now, that law applied only to...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: A new NYC law entitles employees to two temporary schedule changes per year for certain personal events. Separately, the comment period for call-in pay rules proposed by the State DOL has been extended to...more
The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) on November 27, 2017, announced in a press release that the Fair Workweek Law applicable to fast food and retail employers became effective on November 26. The Law is...more
Employers in New York will be subject to new “call-in” pay and scheduling requirements under recently-proposed state Regulations. Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced these proposed Regulations, which the New York State...more
New York City’s Fair Workweek Law takes effect on November 26, 2017, thereby limiting the scheduling options and reducing the flexibility of retail and fast food employers. Not to be outdone, New York State is about to add...more
In case you didn’t know, Oregon enacted the “Fair Work Week” law, making it the first state to legally restrict the scheduling practices of employers in the service sector. The highlights include... ...more
The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) has issued proposed rules for the implementation of the Fair Workweek Law in an attempt to clarify and assist employers with compliance. The Law is intended to reform...more
New York City’s Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), the agency tasked with enforcing the city’s new “Fair Workweek Law,” recently issued proposed rules to implement the legislation and provide guidance to covered employers...more
The controversial New York City Fair Workweek laws are scheduled to go into effect on November 26, 2017 at the conclusion of Thanksgiving weekend. We previously blogged about the new laws shortly after their enactment...more
In a trend that is gaining steam across the country, multiple cities and states have, or are considering adopting, laws that impose conditions and penalties on employer scheduling practices, otherwise known as “scheduling...more
Earlier this year, New York City signed into law the “Fair Work Week” legislative package, which aspires to ensure more predictable schedules and paychecks for fast food and retail workers by setting restrictions on how and...more
Last month, Victoria’s Secret agreed to pay $12 million to settle a class action lawsuit in California brought by hourly employees that were denied pay as a result of the store’s use of on-call shift scheduling. In that...more
A new Oregon statute will require certain large employers to provide their Oregon employees with advance notice of their work schedules. The notice period will initially be 7 days starting next year before increasing to 14...more
Following similar local ordinances in New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle, Oregon has become the first state to enact a law restricting the scheduling practices of service-industry employers. On August 8, Gov. Kate...more
Retailers and fast food companies in particular should be aware of the growing push for “fair workweek” legislation at the city, state, and federal levels. In just the past few years, over a dozen states and cities have...more