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At what point does a company’s application of its anti-fraternization policy become sex discrimination? Last week, a federal court in Alabama found that the answer to this question may be determined by a jury....By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

As we previously reported this past summer, the New York State Senate and Assembly passed Senate Bill 6549, which amended Section 194 of the New York Labor Law to prohibit wage differentials based on any protected class. As we also reported, the...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Due to a recent court decision, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has again revised its workplace examination rule, 30 CFR §§ 56.18002, 57.18002, undoing revisions made in 2018 and returning it to its original form as issued in 2017....By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

The new overtime rule, which the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced on September 24, 2019, was published in the Federal Register on Friday, September 27, 2019. The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) linked to the Federal Register on its new...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

In February 2019, the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One ruled that the Arizona State Legislature overstepped its authority in 2016, when it prohibited Arizona cities and other municipalities from enacting their own employee benefits ordinances....By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Meet the New Boss. The U.S. Senate confirmed Eugene Scalia as the new secretary of labor on September 26, 2019. Scalia, who served as solicitor of labor in the George W. Bush administration, is expected to continue apace with the U.S. Department of...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

The U.S. Department of State has released the October 2019 Visa Bulletin, the first for fiscal year 2020. As anticipated, many of the final action dates have rebounded after retrogressing in August and have returned to dates similar to those seen in...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced today that it would hold a public meeting on its recent Request for Information (RFI) on Respirable Silica (Quartz). That RFI, published on August 29, 2019,...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

On August 14, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a ruling clarifying several mandatory arbitration issues following the 2018 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis. In Cordúa Restaurants,...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Attention, Connecticut employers. October 1, 2019, marks the implementation of two new Connecticut laws. First, Connecticut will begin gradually increasing its minimum wage on October 1, 2019, raising the minimum wage to $11.00 an hour. Second,...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,