Child Labor Continues to Be a Significant Problem in 2024 According to the Department of Labor (DOL), recent years have seen an enormous increase in the amount of child...
Ask the Expert: PUMP the ‘Breaks’ on Disciplining Nursing Mothers Question: We have an employee who is currently breastfeeding and having issues with her performance. She’s reserving our mother’s...
What Employers Can Learn from the UAW and Big Three Strike In mid-September, the United Auto Workers (UAW), which represents nearly 150,000 auto workers, began targeted strikes at certain factories...
DOL Publishes Final Rule Regarding Independent Contractor Classification Under FLSA Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its final rule on employee or independent contractor classification under the...
Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory: A Sweet World with Sour Labor and Employment Practices The close of 2023 treated us to Wonka, a prequel to the beloved childhood classic, shedding light on the...
Shift Changes and Predictive Scheduling Laws While federal law is generally silent on the issue of shift changes and shift scheduling, more and more states...
Final Independent Contractor Rule Rejects ‘Core Factor’ Test On January 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released a final rule—going...
Reports of Labor Exploitation Can Lead to Employment Authorization Deferred action is a streamlined and expedited tool that can shield vulnerable migrant and immigrant workers from threats of...
Navigating the Sometimes Tricky Terrain of Noncompete Agreements In a competitive business environment where human talent often represents an organization’s most important asset, noncompete agreements serve as...
U.S. Supreme Court Sides with SOX Whistleblower in Murray v. UBS Securities On February 8, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided that an employee who blows the whistle under the...
Prepare to Comply with 2024 ACA Deadlines to Avoid Penalties Employers across the United States that have yet to act on their Affordable Care Act (ACA) filing duties are...
New NLRB Election Procedures in Effect for Union Elections In August 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB” or the “Board”) significantly changed its procedures when employees...
DOL’s Final Independent Contractor Rule Returns to Six-Factor Test The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has published its final rule on the classification of workers as either employees...
Supreme Court Employment Law Cases in 2024: What to Watch for, and Why – Part 2 In this three-part series, we are exploring the major employment law cases that we are keeping an eye on...