?The U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Texas recently ordered FedEx to pay $366 million to a former employee who sued over racial discrimination and retaliation. It rejected the company’s... Read more »
?Federal officials announced on Feb. 7 that they have extended the deadline for contractors to submit objections to the public disclosure of their EEO-1 reports. Now the deadline is Feb. 17 at 11:59... Read more »
?The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) intends to implement an interim final rule to clarify how it will use subpoenas. It’s not clear yet whether this rule, tentatively set to... Read more »
?San Francisco recently passed a law that allows employees who are members of the U.S. military to take paid military leave for one or more days at a time for up to... Read more »
?In his State of the Union address last night, President Joe Biden urged the enactment of paid family and medical leave, immigration reform and police reform and called for an end to... Read more »
?In an effort to advance pay equity, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights into law on Feb. 6. The bill’s “equal-pay-equal-benefit” provision requires that temporary workers... Read more »
Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh is expected to resign to become head of the National Hockey League (NHL) Players’ Association, according to news reports. When Walsh, former mayor of Boston, was selected... Read more »
?Takeaway: In order to trigger an employer’s Rehabilitation Act duties, an employee must identify their claimed disability and request a reasonable accommodation that is connected to the disability. ?An employer was justified... Read more »
?Takeaway: An employee’s disclosures about suspected violations of federal law may be protected under the California Whistleblower Protection Act even though they were made during the employee’s normal performance of his job... Read more »
?After several long weeks as the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) undertook a review of the proposal, the new Cal/OSHA COVID-19 regulation has been approved and is now officially in effect. The... Read more »
