Employer Liability Issues, State and Local Government, Undue Hardship

Don’t Get Dog Tired: How to Respond to Employee Requests to Bring Service or Emotional Support Animals to Work as an Accommodation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/30/2025

A Maryland employer recently found itself in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) doghouse when it allegedly summarily rejected an employee’s accommodation request to have his service animal come to work with...more

Exploring the Implications of the 2023 Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 8/15/2023

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”) was passed as part of the December 29, 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act, a new federal law that went into effect on June 27, 2023. This federal legislation requires covered...more

DOL Issues Guidance on PUMP Act for Nursing Workers

Perkins Coie on 7/11/2023

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2023-2 on May 17, 2023, to provide guidance to its field staff regarding enforcement of the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act...more

District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Against Colorado’s Equal Pay Act

Perkins Coie on 6/8/2021

On May 27, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (court) denied Rocky Mountain Association of Recruiters’ (Rocky Mountain) motion for preliminary injunction. Rocky Mountain was seeking to prevent...more

Cal/OSHA Emergency Regulations – Strike One on An Initial Challenge

CDF Labor Law LLP on 2/3/2021

Last week, in a tentative ruling, Judge Ethan Schulman of the San Francisco Superior Court indicated that he was inclined to deny a request made by two separate industry groups in two separate consolidated lawsuits filed in...more

New Lactation Room Laws In New York City

Foley & Lardner LLP on 11/6/2018

The New York City Council just passed two bills that will require employers to provide lactation rooms to breastfeeding employees, as well as develop a lactation policy and processes for employees to request accommodations...more

California Federal Court Says Employers Need Not Approve Multiple Leaves of Absence Where an Employee was Totally Disabled and...

FordHarrison on 3/30/2018

The Southern District Court of California, in Ruiz v. ParadigmWorks Group, Inc., held that an employer was not at fault for failing to grant an employee’s request for multiple medical leaves of absence where the employee was...more

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