Littler’s Annual Survey Of Workplace Issues

Littler’s seventh annual survey looks at the legal, technological and social issues having the greatest impact on the workplace. The year 2017, the report says, “began with employers eagerly expecting the new, business-friendly presidential administration to pare back workplace regulations instituted during the Obama years.” To some extent, employers got what they expected, but as a result, they were sent back to the drawing boards to redesign policies and strategies they had only recently been updated, “while simultaneously navigating a growing patchwork of employment laws as states and localities worked to fill perceived policy vacuums at the federal level.” Meanwhile, the report says, “the fundamental cultural shift sparked by the #MeToo movement has focused more attention on workplace behavior and gender parity, a conversation that can be expected to continue to stretch into the broader realm of fairness in pay and equal opportunities for employees of various backgrounds.” To formulate this report, Littler – the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management – drew on responses from 1,111 in-house counsel, human resources professionals and C-suite executives.