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Arizona Responds to Spike in Fraudulent Unemployment Claims With Advice for...
Like many states, Arizona has been a recent target in the wave of nationwide fraudulent unemployment claims. When the CARES Act passed in the spring of 2020, states were authorized to award expanded...
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Considerations for Employers Contemplating Incentive Programs to Encourage...
As we discussed in a previous post, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) published guidance in December 2020 on employer mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies. That guidance...
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Recent Ninth Circuit Equal Pay Act Decision A Reminder To Examine and...
On Monday, March 15, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, in part, a district court’s order denying a federal Equal Pay Act (“EPA”) claim filed by a former University of Oregon tenured...
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Spring State Law Round-Up (CT, IL, OH, NY, PA, DC)
State legislatures have been busy in 2021 passing new employment-related laws. Here we look at some of the highlights of new laws in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and...
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Whistleblowing webinar questions, Part 2 – interim relief (UK)
In our webinar last week we touched on the existence of a largely unique remedy for whistleblowing dismissals, the concept of interim relief, more recently and lucidly known as a contract continuation...
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California Becomes More Expensive for Employers: Meal and Rest Break Premiums...
Issuing the California Supreme Court’s decision in a much anticipated case, Justice Liu on behalf of a unanimous court explained in Ferra v. Loews Hollywood Hotel, LLC that “[t]he calculation of...
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Dancing to the EU’s tune – why its Whistleblowing Directive may still affect...
The 27 remaining EU member states have until 17 December this year in which to introduce domestic legislation implementing the Whistleblowing Directive from 2019. With scarcely four months to go, how...
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Redundancy or furlough? – something for employers to think about
With the end of the Coronvirus Job Retention Scheme now only half a dozen weeks away we are seeing the first reported Employment Tribunal decisions around the interplay of the CJRS and redundancy...
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Bogged down in pointless appeals? – The Law speaks (UK)
Periodically a case comes along to remind us that underneath all good dismissal practice, Acas guidance and the rest is The Law, and that The Law is sometimes less rigid in its requirements of a fair...
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Department of Labor Updates (Yet Again) Its Rules on Paying Tipped Workers (US)
On October 28, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its Final Rule on tipped wages. As Presidential administrations have changed through the years, so too has the DOL’s view regarding the...
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Looking into workplace investigations, Part 8 – don’t skip the opening...
Right. You have now done all the prior preparation for your investigation which you can – identified the relevant policies, noted the points you need to get at, maybe heard what the complainant wants...
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New York City to Require Employers List Salary Ranges in Job Advertisements (US)
On May 15, 2022, employers will have to officially contend with New York City’s recently enacted salary transparency law. The Big Apple joins a growing list of jurisdictions – California, Colorado,...
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Daily Rate Workers and Overtime Compensation: Implications of the Supreme...
Squire Patton Boggs Summer Associate Wade Erwin discusses the issues in and implications of an FLSA case set to heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in October. In the upcoming 2022-2023 term, the United...
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Increased liabilities under new draft Code on dismissal and re-engagement –...
Back in November 20201 we reported here on some new Acas guidance on changing terms of employment through dismissal and re-engagement, and in November last year on the Government’s intention to issue...
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Third Circuit OKs Deductions From FLSA Exempt Employee PTO Banks (US)
In a first of its kind opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (which hears appeals from the federal district courts in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) ruled that an employer...
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Time OT! DOL Proposes Significant Updates to Overtime Rules…Again (US)
On August 30, 2023, the US Department of Labor announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that could significantly change the “white collar exemptions” to the overtime compensation requirements...
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Attention! Important new decision on accrual of paid leave in France
French law has traditionally provided that absences due to non-occupational illness are not taken into account when determining the amount of paid leave accrued, as they do not constitute a period of...
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Pre-nups in employment contracts – not a marriage made in heaven (UK)
In its judgement in Zabelin -v- SPI Spirits and Shefler this month, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has offered a refresher course on some important questions around protected disclosures, contracting...
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I won’t take this sitting down – how to escape liability for kind thoughts in...
Into the second half of April we go with a strong contender for the No Good Deed prize in the 2024 Has it Really Come to This? Awards,. Employers staring aghast at news in the Times on Saturday that...
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Workplace harassment in Germany: questions over compensation
In a prior post in our German Workplace Harassment series, we discussed possible measures and sanctions employers may take against harassers in their company and some relevant court rulings. Today we...
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