What to Do When Leadership Doesn’t Take Compliance Seriously
Workplace Sexual Assault and Third-Party Risk: What’s the Tea in L&E?
Creativity and Compliance: Reinventing Compliance with Creativity: The Acteon I-Care Code
From Forest to Fortune: Navigating Workplace Ethics With Robin Hood — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Innovation in Compliance: Mastering Communication: Insights from Dr. Dennis Cummins on Speaking and Selling without Selling
Great Woman in Compliance: The Power of Vulnerability with Cricket Snyder
Innovation in Compliance: The Power of Accountability and Team Culture with Gina Cotner
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 55 – The From Worse to Worser Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework: Part 4, Culture
Tips for Conducting a Trade Secret Assessment with Rob Jensen
New Virginia "Workplace Violence" Definition and Healthcare Reporting Law: What's the Tea in L&E?
Work This Way: An Employment Law Video Podcast | Episode 51: Smarter Recruiting Strategies with Rhiannon Poore of Forge Search
Daily Compliance News: July 8, 2025, The Learning on the Job Edition
Summer Strategies for Work Success
Work this Way: An Employment Law Video Podcast | Episode 49: Building Culture by Investing in People with Silvia King of Southern First Bank
Performance Reviews: Lessons from Severance — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Coffee Badging: Mastering the Art of Office Presence — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Creativity and Compliance: Nourish Your Audience: A New Approach to Compliance Training
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 47: Coaching Leaders & Building Culture with Robyn Knox of The HR Business Connect
Sunday Book Review: May 18, 2025, The Books on Engaged Training Edition
Running a restaurant in New York involves managing a fast-paced, labor-intensive business—and keeping up with employment laws can be overwhelming. One of the most common legal pitfalls restaurant owners face is overtime...more
For any Pennsylvania establishment serving alcohol, Responsible Alcohol Management Program (RAMP) certification is a vital compliance requirement. Whether you manage a restaurant, bar, or any other venue selling alcohol,...more
This post is part of a series of articles previewing the unique types of information and guidance contained in the Pullman Comley Hospitality Team’s “Connecticut Restaurant Guidebook 2023 Edition.” Available to members of the...more
On October 8, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (“SB”) 476. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2024. Employees of retail food facilities are already required to obtain a food handler card...more
Federal law already requires disclosure of the nine major food allergens on packaged food products: milk, eggs, fish, seafood, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, and sesame. However, businesses that sell unpackaged food at...more
California lawmakers just passed the first bill in the nation that aims to enact specific workplace rules and standards for fast-food employees – a move that could have devastating consequences for the industry. The Fast Food...more
You get out of bed in the middle of the night with an upset stomach and think to yourself “wow, I must have eaten something bad yesterday.” If you have done this, you are not alone. The Centers for Disease Control and...more
On July 1, 2022, the Responsible Beverage Service Training Program Act (Assembly Bill 1221) will go into effect. This means that Responsible Beverage Service training for alcohol servers and their managers at California...more
Effective July 1, 2022, all on-premise alcoholic beverage servers and their managers must take Responsible Beverage Training (“RBS Training”). This ABC approved training must be completed by August 31, 2022, or within 60...more
On January 1, 2022, amendments to Illinois’s Lodging Services Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act (820 ILCS 95/) took effect, ostensibly adding restaurants and truck stops to the act’s purview. Under the amended act,...more
Restaurants, bars and nightclubs in some of the most populous cities and counties in California must now verify that customers are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before allowing them in. The requirements potentially place...more
Late Thursday, August 12, 2021, New Orleans became one of the first cities nationwide to implement a proof of COVID-19 vaccine mandate effective August 16, 2021. The New Orleans mandate requires individuals to show proof of...more
In a new effort to temper the rising COVID-19 spread, the Shelby County Health Department just issued a new health directive imposing new restrictions on “high risk settings,” including restaurants, bars, and gyms, which took...more
In this episode, host Jonathan Havens, co-chair of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Food, Beverage and Agribusiness (FBA) Practice, speaks with the Firm’s Labor and Employment Practice vice-chair Dena Calo and Carrie Leishman,...more
On June 7, 2020, Governor Lamont issued Sector Rules that Connecticut businesses must follow in order to open during Phase 2 of the state’s reopening plan....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: A new California State guidance provides direction for dine-in restaurants, brewpubs, craft distilleries, breweries, bars, pubs, and wineries to provide a healthy and clean environment for workers and...more
Following his announcement that the state could gradually begin reopening during the first stages of the plan, Governor Newsom issued updated guidance yesterday that includes allowing certain businesses, such as dine-in...more
While most of California has been shuttered since county health care officials, Governor Newsom and mayors throughout the state issued orders closing most businesses, schools and other institutions during the COVID-19...more
Dogs have always been our best friends, so it’s not surprising that more and more restaurants are making strides to ensure their patrons can dine without leaving their fur babies at home. But with great change comes great...more
This alert is the third installment in our series on Illinois’ new anti-harassment legislation, SB75, which is awaiting signature by Governor Pritzker. This alert focuses on new training requirements for private-sector...more
State senators voted early this morning to raise Connecticut’s hourly minimum wage to $15.00 by June 1, 2023 in a plan that involves five annual increases. House Bill 5004, “An Act Increasing the Minimum Fair Wage,” was...more
“Claims of sexual harassment typically involve the behavior of fellow employees. But not always,” said a federal appeals court in Gardner v. CLC of Pascagoula, LLC. The case shows employers must take employee complaints of...more
Illinois has joined the growing number of states proposing mandatory sexual harassment training with a bill that requires training for restaurant employees. If the Restaurant Anti-Harassment Act is enacted, restaurants must...more
On October 23, 2018, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser approved the Tipped Wage Workers Fairness Amendment Act of 2018, D.C. Act 22-489 (“Act”), which repeals an initiative that would have eliminated the tip credit. At...more
When D.C. voters passed Initiative 77 in June, employers began to prepare for a steady increase in the minimum wage they would need to pay their tipped workers. The tipped minimum wage was set to slowly, but significantly,...more