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End of NY Legislative Session Leaves Employers Watching Key Workplace Bills

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New York’s two-year 2025-2026 legislative session hit its midpoint in June, with lawmakers wrapping up the first year by passing a slew of workplace-related bills that now await action from Governor Hochul. As federal labor...more

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California Employment Laws Related to States of Emergency

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Amid the ongoing Southern California wind and fire emergencies, California employers should keep in mind key emergency-related legal protections for employees and obligations placed on employers. Specifically, the Wage Theft...more

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Department of Labor 2023 Enforcement Report – OSHA Insights

On January 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“Department”) Office of Solicitor (“SOL”) published its FY2023 Enforcement Report (“Enforcement Report”). The report provides an insight into the Department’s labor and...more

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Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your November To-Do List

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more

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Top 10 List – Keep Your Eyes on These California Employment Bills on Governor Newsom’s Desk

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Eight months of legislative wrangling and dealmaking have come to an end as the California Legislature just wrapped up work for the year – and now employers across the Golden State turn their eyes to the governor’s office to...more

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The Top 18 Workplace Law Stories from March 2022

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Seyfarth’s 2022 Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Seyfarth’s 18th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report analyzes 1,607 rulings and is our most comprehensive Report ever at over 840 pages. ...more

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Tracker Reveals: Hot COVID Litigation Summer Could Foreshadow Trouble for Employers

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A sharp increase in pandemic-related workplace litigation this summer could spell trouble for employers, as we expect to see a steady increase in COVID-19 lawsuits filed by employees across the country. That’s just one of 10...more

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New Michigan COVID-19 Law Restricts Employment Actions

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Michigan has enacted significant new legislation that prohibits employees with “the principal symptoms” of COVID-19 from reporting to work and forbids employers from discharging, disciplining, or retaliating against employees...more

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How Can I Get My Employees To Return To Work During A Pandemic And Not Get Sued?

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As employers begin to require their employees to return to the workplace, they remain concerned about COVID-19-related litigation. Initially, many were concerned about an anticipated increase in lawsuits alleging that unsafe...more

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COVID-19 Related Litigation Surges: What Employers Can Do To Minimize Exposure

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The much-anticipated surge of COVID-19 pandemic-related litigation has begun. As the pandemic continues to lay siege to the United States economy, claimants’ lawyers and government agencies have begun setting their sights on...more

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Employers, Don’t Let Your Guard Down: COVID-19–Related Employment Lawsuits Are in Full Swing

We previously reported on COVID-19–related employment lawsuits that we tracked from late March 2020 through early May 2020. Since then, the number of lawsuits has steadily risen as employers have resumed operations after...more

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Emerging Trends In COVID-19 Workplace Litigation

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As of this writing, employees from across the country have filed more than 430 COVID-19-related lawsuits against their employers and former employers. Not all of these claims have focused on the Family First Coronavirus...more

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COVID-19 Employment Litigation Tracker Reveals 43% Explosion Of Workplace Claims In June

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Nearly half of all COVID-19-related workplace lawsuits that have been initiated between employees and employers were filed in the past month, according to data collected by the Fisher Phillips COVID-19 Employment Litigation...more

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Philadelphia Enacts Broad Protections Against Perceived COVID-19 Risks in Employment

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On June 26, 2020, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney signed into law a new ordinance amending the Philadelphia Code to enact “employee protections in connection with COVID-19” health orders. ...more

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Employers Beware: Preparing for the Inevitable Flood of COVID-Related Lawsuits

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As states lift their “stay-at-home” orders, employers who have struggled to survive the economic toll of the COVID-19 crisis now face a new threat: uncertain legal liability in a post-COVID market. As we transition away from...more

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Lessons From Smithfield Pork Packing Plant Lawsuit: Could OSHA Preempt Worker Retaliation Claims Concerning Employer COVID-19...

In a workplace safety whistleblower lawsuit recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, an air conditioning technician claims he was fired by his employer, HT Airsystems of Florida, LLC, in...more

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OSHA OKs Drug Testing and Incentive Programs ... Sort of

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OSHA Rolls Back Enforcement of Anti-Retaliation Provisions! Yesterday, the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OSHA”) issued a standard interpretation clarifying its position on the new recordkeeping rule’s...more

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2017 Labor & Employment Legislative Update: The End is Near!

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Governor Jerry Brown has till October 15 to approve bills the Legislature sent to his desk by its Friday, September 15, deadline, including bills that would require employers to ”show us the money” for...more

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The Inside Scoop: Top 10 Employer Mistakes According to the Solicitor of Labor

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Meeting in our nation's capital and having a strong public policy group have some definite perks, such as getting the inside scoop on employment law trends directly from the Department of Labor's Solicitor. During a recent...more

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