Workplace Breastfeeding Laws Offer General Consistency with Local Nuance
Breastfeeding protections have gone mainstream. Through the magic of a budget spending bill, nursing employees in workplaces throughout the country now have legal protections that will afford them...
View ArticleEducate Managers on FMLA/ADA Overlap
Are your managers familiar with the organization’s overlapping obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? Time and again, I see managers...
View ArticleSmall Businesses Are Easily Ensnared by New NYC Hiring Laws
Small businesses that use LinkedIn, Indeed or any online platform to recruit for positions must be wary of the ways in which they can easily pull themselves into the requirements of New York City’s new...
View ArticleFirst of Its Kind Temp Workers Bill of Rights Impacts Temp Firms and the...
New Jersey employers planning their headcount allocation and staff augmentation for the late summer and fall should be mindful of the significant new employment law protections that temporary workers...
View ArticleAll New York Employers Need to Add Policies and Modify Practices to Comply...
Five years after New York City began requiring employers to provide accommodations for employees expressing breast milk at work and adopt lactation accommodation policies with very specific provisions,...
View ArticleRemote Employees Nationwide May Trigger Special Rights in Group Terminations...
With just a handful of words, the NYS Department of Labor has turned upside down the purpose of the state’s WARN Act and imposed a plethora of new obligations on employers that make little practical...
View ArticleEmployers Need to Prepare for NYS Restrictions on Accessing Employees’...
New York will soon join the majority of states that prohibit employers from requesting or requiring job applicants or employees to provide their personal social media information. First enacted in...
View ArticleWhy Non-Union Employers Need to Pay Attention to the NLRB
The overwhelming majority (nearly 90 percent, according to the most recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) of workers in the United States are not unionized. And yet, in the private...
View ArticleLosing Out on Talent? Offensive Language in Your Offer Letter May Be the...
Half of job seekers in a recent Gartner, Inc. survey reported that they backed out on an accepted job offer prior to starting. I remain stunned by this statistic, which suggests to me that employers...
View ArticleNew York Increasingly Protects Those Convicted of Crimes to Enable Future...
Do you conduct background checks on your employees? What do you check for and why? Do you have clearly defined criteria on what types of information gleaned from a background check will be...
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