Join us in person or virtually on Wednesday, February 7 for an All-Day Employment and Employee Benefits Seminar. You’ll hear from Poyner Spruill attorneys about trending topics in employment and employee benefits. We aim to...more
1/23/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Breastfeeding ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Diversity ,
Drug Testing ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Opportunities ,
Events ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Labor Regulations ,
NLRB ,
North Carolina ,
Pregnancy ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (“PUMP Act”) ,
Remote Working ,
SECURE Act ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour
Since 2012, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has taken the position that transgender individuals are protected from discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). The EEOC...more
9/1/2015
/ Employee Restrooms ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Identity ,
Hostile Environment ,
Job Applicants ,
New Guidance ,
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ,
OSHA ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
Discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions constitutes unlawful sex discrimination under Title VII. The EEOC recently issued new Enforcement Guidance to ensure employers treat women...more
According to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), it plans to increase its emphasis on audits and prosecutions of minimum wage and overtime violations, to increase its scrutiny of independent contractor classifications, and to...more
On December 3, 2014, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a press release announcing that it has filed a contempt action in Federal court against a Charlotte-based employer. In that action, the EEOC...more
Publix Super Markets Inc. has agreed to pay $6.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the supermarket chain’s background check procedures. Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), employers must provide prior...more
I-9 Audits -
A fine for a couple of I-9 violations pales in comparison to the $34 million settlement paid by Infosys in 2012 for repeated I-9 violations and omissions discovered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement...more
10/28/2014
/ Audits ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Liability ,
DACA ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
EB-5 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) ,
Form I-9 ,
Immigration ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Retrogression ,
Settlement
There has been a recent uptick in class action litigation initiated by job applicants claiming that employers violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (the FCRA) in the manner they procured and used consumer reports about the...more
Under current law, employees have no statutory right to use their employer-provided email for Section 7 purposes. However, on April 30, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) released a Notice and...more
In the case of White v. County of Los Angeles, the California Court of Appeals recently considered whether an employer may seek its own medical evaluation of an employee’s fitness for duty, even when the employee’s treating...more
Over the last few years, we have seen a significant increase in litigation involving the fees paid by retirement plans. However, until recently, no major litigation had occurred in North Carolina. On March 12, 2014, one of...more
On November 12, 2013, Senator Bob Casey introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate entitled the “Payroll Fraud Prevention Act of 2013.” The act is aimed at reducing the misclassification of employees as independent contractors....more
A Virginia healthcare company, Southwest Virginia Community Health System, recently agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a sexual harassment suit brought against it by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC...more