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Navigating Employee Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Lessons From Pretty Woman — Hiring to Firing Podcast
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California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
Essential Steps to Sell Your Business
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Summer Strategies for Work Success
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Crafting Effective Flexible Leave Policies for Employers
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Key point: The California legislature is considering more than 20 AI-related private sector bills....more
Against the backdrop of climate change and the increasing health and safety challenge of preventing heat-related risks at work, France has introduced a new decree reinforcing the obligations on employers to prevent these...more
This summer, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two is expected to raise the bar again with heart-stopping stunts, cliff-hanging escapes, and the relentless pace we’ve come to expect from the Impossible Missions Force...more
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
Rather than our usual Two Minute Monthly employment law round-up, we are posting for March 2025 a blog by Partner Katherine Pope on the nature and purpose of risk assessments in complying with the sexual harassment...more
The past several years have witnessed a notable uptick in workplace artificial intelligence related legislation and agency enforcement attention, specifically focused on the infusion of AI or so-called automated...more
Research has indicated that 60% of employees have work that frequently or always involves repetitive movements, and 24% of employees have work that often or always involves painful or tiring postures (including sitting still...more
As we previously reported, from October 26, 2024, under the (not-so-concisely named) Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 – which we are calling “the Worker Protection Act” – all employers in the UK...more
On November 27, 2023, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) unveiled draft automated decisionmaking technology (ADMT) regulations that would set forth new consumer protections related to the profiling of consumers...more
Was gilt es ab dem 10. September zu beachten? Das Bundeskabinett hat eine weitere Änderung der Corona-Arbeitsschutzverordnung auf den Weg gebracht. Die Verordnung wird an die Dauer der epidemischen Lage gekoppelt und...more
On 19 July 2021, so-called “freedom day”, England moved onto Step 4 of its roadmap out of COVID-19 restrictions. In conjunction with this milestone, the UK Government released updated “working safely during coronavirus”...more
On May 3, 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 2006 (SB 2006) and Executive Orders 21-101 and 21-102, immediately suspending all existing city and county emergency COVID-19 restrictions, such as mask and...more
On January 29, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued updated guidelines outlining steps employers can take to facilitate a seamless return-to-work plan after COVID-19 subsides. Although guidelines...more
On January 29, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published “Protecting Workers: Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace.” The Guidance incorporates much of...more
On January 29, 2021, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published new guidance on mitigating and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. In a press release announcing the new guidance,...more
As part of President Biden’s first executive actions, on January 21, 2021, the president ordered the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) to issue new science-based guidance to protect workers and...more
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently adopted a temporary rule requiring employers to implement safety measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The rule, which took effect November 16 and remains...more
Starting November 16, 2020, all Oregon employers must comply with new OSHA regulations related to COVID-19. Among other things, these rules impose substantial requirements to conduct risk assessments, create infection control...more
On November 12, 2020, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) announced proposed temporary COVID-19 regulations for review and a vote by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board on...more
On Friday, October 23, 2020, Oregon OSHA issued the fourth draft of a new temporary infectious disease rule applicable to all workplaces in the state (Temporary Rule). The Temporary Rule (staying in effect for up to 180 days...more
I've bargained "virtually" several times, had pre-hearing conference calls via Zoom, and have had an arbitration by Zoom. My clients have mixed feelings about those experiences. Virtual bargaining has been particularly...more
As government officials debate the timeline and criteria for reopening the country, employers are beginning to consider a return to some version of normalcy. After weeks of sheltering in place and teleworking, the prospect of...more
HOW DID WE GET HERE? Business leaders are grappling with challenges which are unprecedented and which have not been witnessed on such a global scale previously. As COVID-19 spreads across the world, governments reacted by...more
On July 24, 2020, California released an Employer Playbook for a Safe Reopening. The 32-page document summarizes existing industry-specific guidance and checklists, workplace outbreak guidance, enforcement, and worker...more
On July 27, 2020, the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry’s Safety and Health Codes Board published its Emergency Temporary Standard on Infectious Disease Prevention: SARS-CoV-2 That Causes COVID-19 (§16 VAC 25-220)...more