?Employers in California are frequently faced with class-action lawsuits brought by current or former employees. Oftentimes, these actions are brought for alleged wage and hour violations, but we’ve seen an uptick in... Read more »
?A bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers has introduced the Workforce Mobility Act of 2023, legislation that would largely ban the use of noncompete agreements in employment nationwide. Previously introduced in 2018, 2019... Read more »
?Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently sent a memo to state agencies and public universities, ordering them to stop applying diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) policies in hiring, the Texas Tribune reported. The... Read more »
?Sometimes U.S. employment laws apply to U.S. citizens who are working abroad, and sometimes they don’t. HR should know when these laws apply “extraterritorially,” as well as when U.S. law and non-U.S.... Read more »
?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 »
