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Feds Say Tech Industry Still Lacks Diversity: 10 Steps Employers Can Take to Eliminate Barriers

Tech industry employers may want to boost their anti-discrimination efforts as the federal government recently decided to shine a spotlight on low diversity in many high-tech occupations. Although tech employers have made...more

Supreme Court Makes It More Difficult for Employers to Deny Religious Accommodations: Your 6-Step Action Plan

Employers now have a higher hurdle to clear when determining whether an employee’s religious accommodation request would cause an undue burden on their business. A mail carrier argued that it was too easy for his employer to...more

SCOTUS Predictions: Supreme Court Will Make It More Difficult for Employers to Deny Religious Accommodations

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case that may change the test that employers use to determine their obligation to accommodate employees’ religious beliefs and practices under federal law. The issue before...more

Employer FAQs on Liquidity Concerns in Light of the SVB Crisis

The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank highlights many of the concerns that employers might face should they find themselves in the midst of a liquidity crisis. Making payroll, arriving at decisions related to wage...more

3 Takeaways for Employers as SCOTUS Agrees to Review Religious Accommodations Test

Will the Supreme Court make it more difficult for employers to deny religious accommodation requests even if they are burdensome for the business? Recently, the Justices agreed to decide a case brought by a mail carrier who...more

ChatGPT Shows the Magic of AI — But Beware the Ghost in the Machine: 3 Caveats for Employers

You may have heard about ChatGPT over the last few weeks, a new chatbot with an uncanny ability to mimic human dialogue and decision making. This artificial intelligence (AI) — which was developed by OpenAI and is currently...more

Top 4 Things Employers Can Do to Prepare for a Possible Recession – and Top 3 Things to Ease Workers’ Inflationary Concerns

With the announcement this morning that the country’s economic numbers have declined for the second straight quarter, many employers are fearful of a possible recession, or at least a sustained economic downturn – and are...more

Flash Survey Reveals: West Coast Workplace Litigation Explosion May Soon Spread Across Country

West coast employers have been dealing with a new era of workplace litigation since the start of the pandemic, one that features increased claims, higher settlement demands, and more aggressive plaintiffs’ counsel – and if...more

Common Cents: New Trend of Wage Statement Wins for Employers in California and Federal Courts

The hyper-technical nature of California’s wage statement laws, embodied in Labor Code section 226, have made violations of this law a favorite of the plaintiffs’ bar for class and representative actions under the Private...more

From Crisis Comes Opportunity: A Silver Linings Playbook For Businesses Emerging From the Pandemic

It’s been said that from crisis comes opportunity. And given that the COVID-19 pandemic has handed us the greatest collective crisis in our lifetimes, it should stand to reason that we should now be in the perfect position to...more

Cannabis Employers Can’t Escape Wage Claims, Says Court

• Cannabis businesses must comply with federal wage and hour law, a federal appeals court ruled, despite the fact they operate in a field still illegal under another federal law. The court said two wrongs don’t make a right....more

Cannabis Use Across Industries And Occupations: What Can-A-Business Do?

Legalized cannabis is quickly making an entrance into all corners of the United States. Currently, nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for recreational use. An additional 20 states allow medical...more

There (Doesn’t) Go the Neighborhood - Why California Employers Don’t Have To Be 420 Friendly After The Legalization Of...

November 8, 2016 marked an election that will go down in history. On the radar of most California employers is the passage of Proposition 64, which legalizes the recreational use of marijuana for adults 21 years of age and...more

A Typo In Your Paystubs Could Cost You Millions

Imagine being sued by every single one of the employees who worked for you over the past four years because your paystubs have an extra comma in your company’s name. Or because the zip code is missing from your company’s...more

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