Labor & Employment
The EEOC earlier this month, as part of new enforcement guidance for the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, took the position that […]
U.S. workers will get pay increases of between two and three percent this year, according to Bloomberg BNA’s Wage Trend […]
Documents released in the Silicon Valley wage-fixing case reveals that Facebook was seen by Google, Apple, Adobe and other tech […]
The effect of last month’s Supreme Court ruling in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning is the subject of […]
The Seventh District Court of Appeals upheld an employee’s argument that she should not have been fired while seeking intermittent FMLA leave to care for her grandchild, though grandparents caring for grandchildren is not covered explicitly under law. As a result of this decision, employers may have to start erring on the side of providing FMLA leave in situations where their employees are looking after grandkids, so long as it is intertwined with providing traditional, direct care to a family member.
Newark joins New York, Seattle, and San Francisco in passing mandatory paid sick leave laws, which went into effect May 29. The law allows workers to use up to 40 hours a year in paid sick time, for part-time as well as full-time employees, and does not allow employers to inquire into the nature of the medical issue.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that police officers conducting a warrantless search of cell phones are violating the Fourth Amendment should put employers on notice, Littler attorney Philip Gordon writes. Private employers must treat smartphones differently from other personal property when conducting a workplace search.
Employment mediations are often stressful, tiring and unsatisfying, but they don’t need to be, writes Littler Mendelson attorney Jaffe D. […]
New Jersey’s Appellate Division upheld an employment application provision that shortened the two-year statute of limitations applicable to claims against […]
Veteran’s Health Administration workers spent hours at a Congressional hearing detailing the ways the organization rebuffed employees who raised concerns, […]
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