Employer Liability Issues, Risk Assessment, Employee Training

The Surprising Ways Your Company Can Be Liable for Human Trafficking – And 4 Steps to Minimize Dangers

Fisher Phillips on 5/29/2025

The phrase alone – human trafficking – is enough to stir outrage, discomfort, or disbelief. What many employers may not realize, however, is that you do not have to be a “trafficker” to be held liable for trafficking....more

Workplace Emergency Preparedness: Damar Hamlin’s Sudden Collapse Spotlights the Importance of an Emergency Action Plan (EAP)

FordHarrison on 1/18/2023

On January 2, 2023, 24-year old Damar Hamlin, safety for the Buffalo Bills, suddenly collapsed on the field during a Monday Night Football game with the former Super Bowl contending Cincinnati Bengals. As millions watched...more

Three Ways To Minimize Your Risk of Workplace Violence

Husch Blackwell LLP on 5/19/2022

On Friday, May 6, the Tennessee Bar Association held its first in-person Labor & Employment Law Forum since 2019. Among the presenters were John Bode of Miller & Martin PLLC and Paul Merritt of Fortress Consulting, LLC, who...more

Oregon-OSHA Issues Extensive COVID-19 Rule

Perkins Coie on 11/18/2020

Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a temporary rule in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that went into effect on November 16, 2020, although many of the rule’s requirements have a later...more

Getting Rid of Those Sneaky Weeds

Hudson Cook, LLP on 11/13/2019

I may be a little old-school on this, but I still like to pick weeds in the yard. It's good exercise, makes the yard look nicer, and gives my brain a little down time. There's a particularly pernicious type of weed in our...more

Sexual Harassment In The Workplace: What Dutch Companies Need To Know

International Lawyers Network on 9/1/2019

What constitutes sexual harassment? Sexual harassment occurs if someone shows verbal, non verbal or physical behavior with sexual connotation which aims at and results in the affection of the dignity of the other person....more

The Present-Future of Work: 2018 Trends and 2019 Predictions

Epstein Becker & Green on 11/30/2018

There is a visceral and palpable dynamic emerging in global workplaces: tension. Tension between what is potentially knowable—and what is actually known. Tension between the present and the future state of work. Tension...more

It’s National Safety Month—Does Your Safety Manual Measure Up?

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 6/22/2018

June is National Safety Month, so it’s a good time for operators to step back and take a hard look at their respective safety policies. Not only is this important for employee safety, it can also have a significant impact on...more

Cal/OSHA Approves Hotel Housekeeping Injury Standard – Likely to Go Into Effect Later This Year

Fisher Phillips on 1/22/2018

After nearly six years of discussion and debate, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board (Board) yesterday approved a standard on “Hotel Housekeeping Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention.”...more

Immediate Strategies for Responding to the #MeToo Movement and Harassment in the Workplace

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 12/29/2017

As a result of troubling personal accounts of sexual harassment that have permeated coverage on national media outlets and our social media accounts during the past few months, employers may appropriately question whether...more

Time for employers to up their game for preventing workplace harassment

McAfee & Taft on 12/12/2017

Franken. Lauer. Spacey. Weinstein. Moore. And others. There is no question that in 2018 all employers will be facing growing harassment challenges. That means now is a critical time to assess the effectiveness of your policy,...more

Addressing Workplace Harassment in an Age of Heightened Awareness - Four Steps Employers Can Take Now

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 12/11/2017

The hashtag #MeToo started a long-overdue, nationwide conversation about sexual harassment. It is a source of strength for those who have suffered silently, and revelations about new high-profile harassment cases are emerging...more

Is Your Anti-Harassment Training Making the Grade?

Miller & Martin PLLC on 3/31/2017

If your initial response to this question is, "What anti-harassment training? Are we still supposed to be doing that? Isn't that kind of 'old school'?", your first step needs to be planning anti-harassment training in 2017....more

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