California Employment News: Gathering Information in a Workplace Investigation – Part 2 (Featured)
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 44: Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations with Kimberly Hewitt and Antwan Lofton of Duke University
A Retaliation Refresher: What's the Tea in L&E?
#WorkforceWednesday®: Federal Contractors Alert - DEI Restrictions Reinstated by Appeals Court - Employment Law This Week®
Whistleblower Challenges and Employer Responses: One-on-One with Alex Barnard
Constangy Clips Ep. 9 - The Penalty Playbook: 3 Pointers for Employee Discipline
Harassment in the Celebrity Workplace: Insights From It Ends With Us — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Hoops and Legal Loops: The Dearica Hamby Case Explained
Workplace Investigation Protocols: One-on-One with Greg Keating
Webinar: Is Your DEI Policy Setting You Up for a Lawsuit?
Navigating Employment and Separation Agreements: Lessons From Al Pacino's Serpico — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Employment Law Now VII-130- An Interview With EEOC Commissioner (Vice Chair) Jocelyn Samuels
#WorkforceWednesday: Whistleblower Risks in an Economic Downturn, Whistleblower Protection Settlement - Employment Law This Week®
DE Under 3: Updated EEOC COVID-19 Technical Assistance Guidance, Case Decision & Wage & Hour Division Proposed Rule
What's Going on With Whistleblower Lines
#WorkforceWednesday: CA COVID-19 Policies Get Updates, NYC Pay Transparency Law Postponed, DOL Targets Worker Retaliation - Employment Law This Week®
Whistleblowers: Don't Drink the Government's Kool-Aid
What Employers Should Know About the Federal Joint Initiative to Reduce Workplace Retaliation
#WorkforceWednesday: Whistleblower Regulations Increasing, #MeToo Bill Passes, Cyberfraud Risk Mitigation - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: CA Whistleblower Retaliation Cases, NYC Pay Transparency Law, Biden’s Labor Agenda - Employment Law This Week®
With the internet ablaze over the recent apparent outing of a workplace romance among executives during a Coldplay concert, employers may be reviewing the legal implications of workplace relationships and considering options...more
A recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington highlights the importance of clear, documented reasons for employee terminations. In Kang v. The Boeing Company, a case involving a former...more
Accommodate, accommodate, accommodate! I started practicing law two years before Congress enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), and four years before it took effect (1992 for larger employers, 1994 for smaller...more
This client alert, the third in our series on Colorado employment law changes from the 2025 Colorado Legislative Session, analyzes other significant legislative changes. Our previous alerts addressed new liability for owners...more
Here is a common scenario faced by human resources professionals: An employee complains about unprofessional and bullying behavior by a coworker. After interviewing the two employees and other workers, the employer cannot...more
New York State’s Reproductive Health Bias Law (the “Act”) has been reinstated following a Second Circuit ruling. The Act, found in Section 203-e of New York State’s Labor Law, prohibits discrimination based on an employee’s...more
In Title VII actions, plaintiffs have a limited amount of time to file a charge of discrimination (or a court can dismiss the case as untimely). In the case of Wells v. Texas Tech University, the timeliness dynamic was...more
The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) prohibits employment discrimination and retaliation based on an employee’s military status or obligations. If an individual’s military status or their...more
California recently enacted two laws that expand the scope of discrimination claims and prohibit retaliation against employees for failing to participate in employer-sponsored meetings regarding religious or political...more
Mass protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd have raised concerns among public health professionals that the proximity of the protestors to each other – and the shouting and chanting typical of protests – could...more
Many employers have been forced to consider employee layoffs, furloughs or salary reductions as a way to manage some of the financial hardship created by COVID-19. Companies should keep in mind existing federal, state and...more
As reported in our new laws for 2017 post, employers must give written notice to new employees (and to current employees upon request) explaining the rights of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. All...more
On January 26, 2017, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Ricardo Roselló, signed into law the Labor Transformation and Flexibility Act (the “Act”). The Act represents the first significant and comprehensive labor law reform to occur in...more
A report last month issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that a survey of nonexecutive CFPB employees revealed “heightened concerns related to fair treatment, trust that employees can raise concerns...more
The latest legislative session has just ended, and, true to form, the California Legislature has added more than a dozen new laws affecting employers doing business in the nation’s largest state. These statutes are in...more
In This Issue: - Too Pretty, Too Bad - Employee Rights - Employment Quiz - Excerpt from Employee Rights: Know Your Employment Rights: Discrimination, Harassment and the At-Will Employee Should a...more
In a closely watched case, a federal district court questioned the stance of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that a severance agreement and general release of claims offered to employees can violate...more
The Washington courts are strict in their interpretation of the classification of individuals as employees versus independent contractors, resulting in many an employer discovering that an “independent contractor” is instead...more
On June 26, 2014, in Salas v. Sierra Chemical Co., the California Supreme Court held that undocumented immigrants who fraudulently obtained employment still may pursue retaliation and discrimination claims under the...more
Sitting here in the Big Apple, the thought of the New York City Council voting to narrow the reach of the New York City Human Rights Law seems roughly equivalent to the thought of a Game of Thrones episode without any...more
On April 8, President Obama issued two executive orders which will impact employers who do business with the federal government. First, the President made it unlawful for contractors to retaliate against employees who discuss...more
Members of the Minnesota legislature recently introduced seven bills that could have very significant implications for Minnesota employers if passed into law. The bills will be heard in House committees this week and may move...more
San Francisco recently adopted the “Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance,” which prohibits caregiver discrimination and gives employees a right to request “flexible” or “predictable working arrangements” to assist employees...more
California employers should note the following legislative developments related to employees and their familial obligations: SB 770: Governor Brown signed into law a bill that expands the list of family members for...more
Two cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of its 2012-13 term, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar and Vance v. Ball State University, will significantly alter the landscape of employment...more