As anticipated and reported in a prior blog discussing action items on President Biden’s agenda, and as foreshadowed by the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in March, 2021, the DOL on July 30, 2021 withdrew the prior Joint Employer Final Rule that was published during the Trump administration,
Employment practices liability insurance policies, commonly referred to as EPLI, provide protection against large jury verdicts rendered in cases involving employment discrimination, harassment and other employment law violations. These policies also typically call for insurers to pay the costs of defense counsel in excess of the employer’s retention.
While these policies may indeed provide significant
Under Section 707 of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (“Title VII”), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC” or “the Commission”) has the authority to bring a suit when “a person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of any of the
Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) protects employees who engage in concerted activity. Since the Atlantic Steel case in 1979, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) has applied a four-part test to determine whether that protection extends to offensive language, often times finding offensive speech to be protected on
On May 30, 2019, the Office of Labor-Management Standards (“OLMS”) within the U.S. Department of Labor issued a notice seeking comments on a proposed rule that would require labor organizations to submit annual financial reports for trusts in which the labor organization has an interest.
The OLMS oversees the financial disclosure statements required of labor
Private employers with more than 100 employees previously have been required to report workforce data across 10 job categories broken down by race, gender and ethnicity. The data is reported annually by October 1 to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) on the EEO-1 form, which currently comprises one page for each facility of
On September 14, 2018, the National Labor Relations Board published a new proposed rule that attempts to reverse the joint-employer rule created in the Board’s Browning-Ferris Industries decision of 2015. (Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc., 362 NLRB No. 186 (2015). On December 10, 2018, the Board issued a notice that it was extending until
In a recent decision handed down by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Mosby-Meachem v. Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division, No. 17-5483 (6th Cir. 2018), the Court held that in certain circumstances telecommuting may constitute a reasonable accommodation.
Andrea Mosby-Meachem was hired by Memphis Light in 2005 as an in-house
The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion on October 13, 2017, that serves to remind employers of the need to pay employees when they take short work breaks during their workday.
In DOL v. Am. Future Sys., Inc. 2017 BL 367399, 3d Cir., No. 16-2685, the employer had a “flex time” policy
In Cristina Barbuto v. Advantage Sales & Marketing LLC and Joanne Meredith Villaruz, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Case No. SJC-12226, the Massachusetts Supreme Court held on July 17, 2017, that an employee in Massachusetts can bring a claim of disability discrimination after being fired for using medical marijuana.
Medical marijuana was approved by Massachusetts