What Can the Show Severance Teach Us About Work-Life Balance? - Hiring to Firing Podcast
Dos Toros - Maintaining Culture While Scaling (and Having Fun)
III-43-Expert Roundtable Discussion on the Impact of Recent Regulatory Initiatives on Recruitment, Retention and the Retail Industry
III-41- Things That Make You Go “Hmmm” in Employment Law
Employment Law This Week®: OSHA’s Reporting Rule Rollback, CA’s Salary History Ban, NYC’s Temporary Schedule Change Law, Model FMLA Forms Expired
Episode 17: Predictable Schedules And Comp Time – The Next Wage & Hour Frontiers?
It has been a particularly busy year on the labor and employment law front. To learn more about the major challenges employers face and developments your organization needs to address before year's end, we encourage you to...more
The allure of doing business in California is undeniable. It is the world’s fifth largest economy (moving toward fourth) and a market of more than 39 million people. For employers, however, California presents unique...more
Mexico’s Congress has continued to make progress on several legislative items of importance to employers and employees alike, including, most especially, a proposed reduction in the maximum number of workweek hours....more
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) governs private sector labor/management relations in the United States. Under the NLRA, employers have certain responsibilities and restrictions with regard to their employees,...more
In the latest of a string of decisions seemingly supporting President Biden’s claim of being the most pro-union president in history, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) this week issued its Final Rule on the Standard...more
With $3 million in funding from A.B. 102, California’s recent appropriations bill, the Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC), the administrative body charged by statute to regulate wages, hours, and working conditions, will...more
And so we come to the ultimate affront to franchising. Responding to strong lobbying efforts by the Service Employees International Union (SIEU), the California legislature passed the Fast Food Accountability and Standards...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has signed into law two measures addressing the employment relationship. The first, Act 809 (H.B. 389), alters the definition of employment for purposes of unemployment benefits. ...more
Happy new year . . .? It’s already February, and time to remind clients and friends of a few big picture items that California employers should watch in 2021. Here is the list: No. 1: Independent contractors....more
Well, first of all, the UK is going to get Brexit done! What this will feel like after years of wrangling will remain to be seen. There are some reports that Boris Johnson’s newly elected government is squaring up for a...more
As 2019 comes to an end, employers should know about important new obligations that will ring in their new year. Our Labor & Employment experts offer some guidance on critical developments in Oregon, Washington, California,...more
Women often face a very different path than men when it comes to today’s workplaces. Often in our society, the working life of women changes dramatically after significant life events such as the birth of a child, a family...more
This complimentary webinar will educate business owners, in-house counsel and human resources professionals on legislative and case law updates that will impact employment in California in 2020, including: • The assault on...more
This edition of Employment Flash looks at a series of recent NLRB decisions, many of which apply to all employers, not just those with unionized employees. We also discuss other U.S. federal and state labor and...more
The surge in popularity of the gig economy in recent years has largely been a positive trend. The gig economy has made it possible for us to Uber from place to place, hire housecleaners or handymen as needed, find a dog...more
Although most state legislatures have adjourned for 2019 or are in recess, those still in active session finalized several new employment laws in July. California advanced a bill that would codify a judicially established...more
NLRB Returns to Traditional Independent Contractor Standard - On January 25, 2019, in SuperShuttle DFW, Inc., the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) returned to its traditional independent contractor standard based on the...more
While the partial federal government shutdown has kept Congress at an impasse, it should be business as usual at the state and local levels in January. At least 46 states and the District of Columbia will be in session by the...more
On November 21, 2018, the Ontario government passed the Making Ontario Open for Business Act, 2018 (Bill 47), which introduces significant changes to Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA), Labour Relations Act, 1995...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Seattle has long been at the forefront of progressive labor policies. Take, for example, its 2014 Minimum Wage Ordinance, which made it the first major city in the nation to increase wages to $15 an hour. ...more
As Independence Day approaches, only three states are in active session: California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Roughly a dozen other states are in recess for several months, while the rest have officially adjourned for...more
On-call duty performed by an employee in the place of residence combined with the obligation to be present quickly at the workplace upon an employer's request should be treated as "working time" – European Court of Justice...more
State and local lawmakers introduced over 250 new labor and employment bills in February, and considered hundreds of others in various stages of the legislative lifecycle. Many topics covered by these measures are familiar,...more