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Q: Can I keep an employee home if they have been exposed to the measles? Do I have to pay them? A: If you become aware that an employee has been exposed to a significant contagious disease, which would include mumps, measles, chicken pox and/or TB,...By: Davis Brown Law Firm

On July 31, 2019, Mexico’s Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare or Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social (STPS) published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (Diario Oficial de la Federación) (DOF) the protocol to legitimize currently...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Employee burnout is now an officially diagnosable condition. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), which recently updated its definition, employee burnout is not a medical condition. Instead, the WHO calls burnout an “occupational...By: Fisher Phillips

Under Title VII, employers are vicariously liable for incidents of sexual harassment engaged in by supervisors. In its Faragher and Ellerth decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged a limited defense to claims of supervisor harassment where the...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Leading Industrial Supplies Provider Fired Employee After He Requested Leave For Prostate Cancer Recovery, Federal Agency Charged - ATLANTA - Vallen Distribution, Inc. (formerly Hagemeyer North America, Inc.), a national leading provider of...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Employers subject to the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate (generally, those with 50 or more full-time equivalents) are required to offer qualifying, affordable health insurance coverage to substantially all full-time employees in order to avoid...By: White and Williams LLP

On June 25, 2019, Governor Lamont signed into law “An Act Concerning Paid Family and Medical Leave,” (“PFMLA”) enacting what is reported to be the most generous family leave law in the country.  The law provides employees with up to 12 weeks of paid...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP

Senior Living Provider Rescinded Employment Offer and Refused to Accommodate Applicant With a Disability, Federal Agency Charges - INDIANAPOLIS, IN - Senior living solutions giant, Brookdale Senior Living, Inc., violated federal law by refusing to...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Employees and job applicants in New Jersey who are lawful medical cannabis users can hold their heads up high at work, thanks to several added workplace protections in New Jersey’s amended medical cannabis law. New Jersey’s Amended Medical Cannabis...By: Genova Burns LLC

In this one-hour webcast, Wendy will help your understanding of how to best manage Independent Contractors in your current business and how to best mitigate the risk of worker misclassification; and provide best practices for each step of the IC...By: Openforce