?On Nov. 15, 2021, the city of Des Moines, Iowa, passed a “ban-the-box” law to limit employer inquiries and background checks into an applicant’s criminal history until after a conditional offer of... Read more »
?Colorado enacted a slew of employment-related legislation in the 2022 legislative session. One important new piece of legislation, Senate Bill 22-234, updates the notice requirements regarding unemployment insurance that employers must provide to... Read more »
?Due to a surplus in the District of Columbia’s Universal Paid Leave Fund, the number of weeks of paid leave available to eligible employees in the District of Columbia pursuant to the Universal... Read more »
?Takeaway: Employers can have a zero-tolerance policy toward racist statements but should enforce it equally against members of different races. Had the plaintiff presented comparator evidence showing that members of other races... Read more »
?A Washington workers’ compensation law applying only to federal contract workers at one federal facility in the state made it unconstitutionally easier for federal contractors to obtain workers’ compensation than state or... Read more »
In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court made it harder to prove that a health plan violates the Medicare secondary payer rules when the plan requires patients to pay high out-of-pocket... Read more »
?Takeaway: While UtiliQuest’s legal counsel didn’t invent the pre-emption doctrine or pioneer its application in an employment case, it was definitely an outside-the-box strategy that paid off. ?An employee’s state law claims... Read more »
?One of Apple’s U.S. stores, located near Baltimore, voted to unionize, a first within the country, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced June 18. We’ve gathered articles on this news from... Read more »
Compensation structures are not something you set and forget, said Tina Marie Wohlfield, SHRM-SCP, founder and chief people strategist at HR consultancy TIMAWO LLC in Fraser, Mich., near Detroit. Wohlfield offered tips... Read more »
?Former employment attorney and author Jathan Janove writes for SHRM Online on how to inject greater humanity into HR compliance. He welcomes your questions and suggestions for future columns. Contact him at... Read more »
