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Under current California law, an employer with an establishment in California must report a serious work-related injury, illness or death that occurs at the employer’s place of employment or in connection with their employment to the Division of...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

Governor Cuomo signed the groundbreaking harassment legislation that we previously covered here on August 12, 2019. The law profoundly alters the landscape of harassment claims in New York and how employers should be prepared to handle them....By: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Substantially overhauling its labor law, Mexico has enacted legislation that prohibits employer interference with workers’ rights, protects employees’ right to join or not join a union, and requires unions to secure employee support. In order to...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a historic ruling that benefits employers faced with the burden of proving that an employee or group of employees is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage and overtime rules....By: Baker Donelson

Employers may find it easier to remain union-free based on new rules proposed last week by the National Labor Relations Board for bringing unions into and out of the work place. Citing the National Labor Relations Act’s (Act) purpose of safeguarding...By: Akerman LLP

New York state has enacted sweeping new workplace harassment protections for employees, including lowering the standard for when harassment is actionable. It also has adopted new law prohibiting employment discrimination based on religious attire,...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

In this five-part podcast series, we consider some of the basic questions around monitors and monitorships. I am joined in this podcast series by Jay Rosen, the Vice President of Business Development and Monitoring Specialist at Affiliated Monitors,...By: Thomas Fox

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: • Beny Steinmetz indicted in Switzerland over Guinea mine deal. (Reuters) • New study which shows that when independent auditors do their jobs correctly, they have trouble getting hired. (WSJ) • Non-profit...By: Thomas Fox

The State of Alabama passed an Equal Pay Act in the 2019 legislative session that is set to take effect on September 1, 2019. Employers must begin their preparations to comply with the law now because there are new timekeeping and wage records that...By: Fisher Phillips

The “20% Rule,” which provided guidance to employers for when they must pay tipped employees minimum, rather than a tipped hourly wage, was recently abandoned by the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”). First published in a 1988 DOL Handbook,...By: Poyner Spruill LLP