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Under new EEO-1 reporting requirements, private employers with 100 or more employees are required to submit Component 2 data for the calendar years 2017 and 2018 by September 30, 2019....By: Foley & Lardner LLP

We previously reported on the San Antonio sick leave ordinance that was to become effective August 1, 2019. City of San Antonio employers now have four extra months to comply. On July 24, 2019, district judge Sol Casseb signed off on a deal between...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

This past Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Eugene Scalia to be the next secretary of labor. Readers will recall that the current secretary, Alexander Acosta, resigned on July 12, 2019. Acosta was subjected to much...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

On the day that New York State honored the U.S. women’s soccer team for their World Cup victory – a team whose members have publicly demanded pay equity with the U.S. men’s soccer team – Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation amending the state’s pay...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

Whistleblower Developments is a periodic report covering significant cases, decisions, proposals, and legislation related to whistleblower statutes and how they may impact your business......By: Foley & Lardner LLP

Recognizing that, in some situations, a plan to develop or construct a facility or energy property may raise significant national security concerns, the IRS released Notice 2019-43 (which may be found here) on July 12, 2019, which provides that the...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

A pending federal appeals court case is the latest to highlight the challenges employers face when considering accommodation requests from an employee with a medical condition. As we have written before, leave and accommodation requests present some...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

The trend of states legalizing both medical and recreational marijuana use continues to gain momentum. Unfortunately for employers, this also means having to wade through an ever-growing patchwork of marijuana laws across the country. Already this...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) prohibits health insurance policies and group health plans that cover mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits from imposing limitations on MH/SUD benefits that are less...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

Wage and hour laws. Child labor laws. OSHA laws. Immigration laws. When employers do not comply with these types of employment laws, civil charges and lawsuits are not the only thing that can happen. In what may come as an unwelcome surprise to...By: Foley & Lardner LLP